WS Quotes/Character

Question 1

SLOPER (irony):

Answer 1

“Don’t underestimate the value of irony - it is extremely valuable”

Question 2

SLOPER (cleverness):

Answer 2

“You are good for nothing unless you are clever”

Question 3

SLOPER (nature):

Answer 3

“Never eager, never impatient nor nervous”

Question 4

SLOPER (hypocrisy):

Answer 4

“You must not be too much bent on a fortune”

Question 5

SLOPER (women):

Answer 5

“You women are all the same”

Question 6

SLOPER (Morris):

Answer 6

“The principal thing we know about him is that however much he may value your personal merits, he values your money more”

Question 7

SLOPER (control):

Answer 7

“She will do as I have bidden her”

Question 8

CATHERINE (desire):

Answer 8

“Her deepest desire was to please him”

Question 9

CATHERINE (goodness):

Answer 9

“To be good, she must be patient, respectful, abstain from judging her father too harshly”

Question 10

CATHERINE (nature):

Answer 10

“Since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate”

Question 11

CATHERINE (romanticism):

Answer 11

“It doesn’t take long to like a person - once you begin”

Question 12

CATHERINE (dignity):

Answer 12

“Catherine’s dignity was not aggressive […] her father had pushed her very hard”

Question 13

MORRIS (cigars):

Answer 13

“He smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment”

Question 14

MORRIS (nature):

Answer 14

“Morris was not a young man who needed to be pressed”

Question 15

MORRIS (mercenary):

Answer 15

“Looking round the room a good deal, and at the objects it contained”

Question 16

MORRIS (fortune):

Answer 16

“I must seek my fortune here or nowhere”

Question 17

MORRIS (money):

Answer 17

“I do like the money”

Question 18

SLOPER THEMES:

Answer 18

Rationality, hypocrisy, women, brokenness

Question 19

CATHERINE THEMES:

Answer 19

Submissiveness, feminism, character development

Question 20

MORRIS THEMES:

Answer 20

Mercenary, Sloper similarities, charm

Question 21

SOCIAL CLASS (country):

Answer 21

“A country in which, to play a social part, you must either earn your income or make believe that you earn it”

Question 22

SOCIAL CLASS (doctor):

Answer 22

“This purpose had not been preponderantly to make money - it had been rather to learn something and to do something”

Question 23

SOCIAL CLASS (vulgarity):

Answer 23

Dr Sloper hated “vulgarity”

Question 24

SOCIAL CLASS (dress):

Answer 24

“It made him fairly grimace, in private, to think that a child of his should both be ugly and overdressed”

Question 25

SOCIAL CLASS (unemployment):

Answer 25

“[She] had never heard of a young man - of the upper class - in this situation”

Question 26

SOCIAL CLASS (gentleman):

Answer 26

“[Townsend] is not what I call a gentleman. […] He is a plausible coxcomb”

Question 27

SOCIAL CLASS (NYC):

Answer 27

“That’s the way to live in New York - to move every three or four years […] it’s a great thing to keep up with the new things”

Question 28

FAMILIAL LOVE (father-daughter):

Answer 28

“I have been as good as I could, but he doesn’t care”

Question 29

FAMILIAL LOVE (female duty):

Answer 29

“I have come home to be married - that’s all I know”

Question 30

FAMILIAL LOVE (loss):

Answer 30

“It’s because he is so fond of my mother, whom we lost so long ago”

Question 31

FAMILIAL LOVE (goodness):

Answer 31

“She could at least be good, and if she were only good enough, Heaven would invent some way of reconciling all things”

Question 32

WOMEN (Sloper attitude):

Answer 32

“He had never been dazzled, indeed, by any feminine characteristics whatever”

Question 33

WOMEN (young men):

Answer 33

“[Young men] accept nothing of life but its pleasures, and to secure these pleasures by the aid of your complaisant sex.”

Question 34

WOMEN (marriage):

Answer 34

“I have come home to be married - that’s all I know”

Question 35

WOMEN (admirable):

Answer 35

“Catherine, however, became an admirable old maid”

Question 36

WOMEN (manipulation):

Answer 36

“She was incapable of suspecting that he was playing with her”

Question 37

RATIONALITY vs SENTIMENTALITY (reason):

Answer 37

“An idea of the beauty of reason”

Question 38

RATIONALITY vs SENTIMENTALITY (experience):

Answer 38

“What I tell you is the result of thirty years of observation”

Question 39

RATIONALITY vs SENTIMENTALITY (experience 2):

Answer 39

“I confess I have nothing but my impression to go by […] Of course you are at liberty to contradict it flat”

Question 40

RATIONALITY vs SENTIMENTALITY (lover):

Answer 40

“She would have liked to have a lover, and to correspond with him under an assumed name in letters left at a shop”

Question 41

RATIONALITY vs SENTIMENTALITY (wedding):

Answer 41

“She had a vision of this being performed in some subterranean chapel”

Question 42

RATIONALITY vs SENTIMENTALITY (loss):

Answer 42

“It’s because he is so fond of my mother, whom we lost so long ago”