What do the arts—music, painting, theater—mean to Paul? How does hereact when exposed to them? Is he himself an artist?
What will be an ideal response?
- Oddly, when he hears a concert, it’s “not that symphonies, as such, [mean] anything in particular to Paul” (par. 11). The romance and beauty in the air excite him to hysteria. He reacts in the same way to fine food and wine, good clothes, a lavishly decorated room. For all his sensitivity, he is not an artist, and he doesn’t respond to art as an artist would. It’s the idea of art and beauty, the pleasure they afford his senses, that evoke a response in him. In Willa: The Life of Willa Cather, Phyllis C. Robinson points out that Paul “may have had the sensitivity of an artist but, unlike his creator, he was without discipline, without direction and, saddest and most hopeless of all, he was without talent.” In that fact lies his private tragedy.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
"A Supermarket in California"--Allen Ginsberg Which is the best description of the speaker's attitude and tone toward the person he is addressing?
A. critical, disdainful B. friendly, familiar C. polite but reserved D. jealous and hateful
What does it mean to include the true causes and effects of your topic?
a) To include the true causes and effects, you must not make up or fictionalize any causes or effects. b) Including the true causes and effects means to use only the causes and effects you can prove. c) Including the true causes and effects means to dig to the actual causes and effects, not the coincidences. d) To include the true causes and effects means to determine the effects based on what happened next.
Although Sylvia was happy to be getting married, she was not especially excited about her upcoming engagement party. Her attitude was quite ______________.
A. nonchalant B. enmeshed C. effervescent D. exaggerated