Wealth and inheritance Cat

Question 1

‘You all think there’s robbers in the house’ BM

Answer 1

Common noun ‘Robbers’ reflects on the beliefs of both sides of the inheritance battle that the other side is robbing them

Question 2

‘Born poor, raised poor, expected to die poor unless I manage to get us something’ M

Answer 2

Epiphora ‘Poor’ reveals Maggie’s history and motivation for securing BD’s wealth

Question 3

‘He buys and buys and buys… he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will b life-everlasting’

Answer 3

tricolon of dynamic verb buys, declarative statement. Emphasises human desire for material excess, relationship between wealth and legacy

Question 4

‘There are sounds if croquet in the lawn below’

Answer 4

SD, symbolism- Mae and Gooper are playing the game for inheritance’ and Brick and Maggie haven’t yet joined

Question 5

Around the place I made! I made this place! I was the overseer on it! I was the overseer..’

Answer 5

Repetition of personal pronoun ‘I’, exclamatory mood. BD emphasising that his fortune is self-made strength of anger

Question 6

‘I’ll strip her naked and choke her with diamonds and smother her with minks’

Answer 6

Combination of lexical sets of violence and wealth-violence and power