Gender

Question 1

Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent, 1981

Answer 1

“I thought Sir Quentin was up to something quite dangerous in his evident attempt to get that group of weak people under his dominion for some purpose I couldn’t yet make out.”

Question 2

Monika Rogalinska, 2011, Inner strength of Spark’s female characters

Answer 2

“Fleur… denies her own potential and believes in her failure” but when she starts to suspects Sir Quentin’s wrongdoings, “in her determination to foil Sir Quentin, Fleur discovers her own innate strength”

Question 3

Poor Things, Alasdair Gray, 1992

Answer 3

“Baxter, you boasted in the heat of a quarrel that you were devising a secret method of getting a woman all to yourself , and now I know what your secret is - abduction!”

Question 4

Loitering 2

Answer 4

“Sir Quentin was conforming more and more to the character of my Warrender Chase; it was amazing, I could have invented him, I could have invented all of them”

Question 5

Bennett and Royle, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, 1995, ‘Sexual Difference’

Answer 5

“the man, is active, ‘practical’, dominant, unemotional… the woman, appears to be passive, non-practical, subordinate p, emotional.”

Question 6

Poor Things 2

Answer 6

“I am a very romantic woman who needs a lot of sex but not from you because you cannot help treating me like a child”