Packet 6: Bonus 12

Description acceptable. In this scene, a character gestures at an envelope on the table and demands “Your word of honour that you’re not in love with her memory.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this novelistic scene in which a man delivers an ultimatum to his fiancée over an inheritance, prompting her to make the ambiguous declaration “We shall never be again as we were!”
ANSWER: the end of The Wings of the Dove [accept synonyms for “end” such as the last scene in The Wings of the Dove; accept answers indicating the Fifth Chapter of Book 10 of The Wings of the Dove]
[10e] This author of The Portrait of a Lady fictionalized his cousin as the doomed American heiress Milly Theale in The Wings of the Dove.
ANSWER: Henry James
[10m] Late in The Wings of the Dove, Kate delays news of Merton’s inheritance by doing this action. The narrator of another James novel resigns himself to buying a portrait of Jeffrey Aspern after Tita tells him she did this action.
ANSWER: burning a letter [accept burning the Aspern papers; accept equivalents like lighting documents on fire]
<HA, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-6

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