The Golden Age Quotes

Question 1

Frank

Answer 1

• “his escape, his refuge”
• “love and poetry… had saved him”
• “the gap that let polio in”

Question 2

The past

Answer 2

• “nostalgia was everywhere”
• “shell-shocked”
• “guests”

Question 3

The kids/isolation

Answer 3

• “stranded”
• “outcast”
• “a watering hole”
• “tragic children, cursed, deformed”

Question 4

Ida

Answer 4

• “she was a bird who refused to sing”
• “she was distant from him”
• “melancholy, harsh”
• “her career was in the past, like Europe”
• “her strength, her vast determination”

Question 5

Elsa

Answer 5

• “come back distant from everybody”

- “lost her childhood”

Question 6

Olive Penny

Answer 6

• “light”

- “sustained her”

Question 7

Meyer

Answer 7

• “had a suspicion that never again would he feel at home as he once had. Never again on this Earth”
• “bliss of being loved”