SB - Characters

Question 1

Joe

Answer 1

“Nobody important, really, just a movie writer with a couple of b pictures to his credit”
“maybe I could wipe the whole nasty mess out of my life’’
Joe’s description of the ‘mixed-up dream’ he has the night of the funeral, imagining ‘an organ [player]’ and the ‘chimp…dancing for pennies’ that he will soon become.

Question 2

Norma

Answer 2

“The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her’’
“a great big white elephant of a place…a neglected house gets an unhappy look.”

Question 3

Betty

Answer 3

Joe: “little tour of the drowsing lot”
Moral compass, not attracted to fame

Question 4

Max

Answer 4

'’Madame got the razor from your room and cut her wrists’’
“How did you know I was going to stay this afternoon?” (Foreshadows)
“Feeding her lies and more lies”
“I wouldn’t look too closely at the post box”
“Madam is the greatest of them all”
“I discovered Norma when she was 16”

Question 5

DeMille

Answer 5

“more courage and wit and heart that ever came together in one youngster”

Question 6

Artie

Answer 6

New Year’s Party
Joe living on couch