Describe Jack’s tone. Does he seem amused with Lady Bracknell, nervousabout the interview, or genuinely eager to please her?

What will be an ideal response?


Jack, as developments make clear, is a very clever and urbane young man, and as such he can hardly help being amused, to some degree, by the formidable personage before him. He is of course eager to please her, but how “genuinely” so? After all, he is pursuing his own interest, not hers; pleasing her is a means to his end, not an end in itself. And he is clearly nervous about the interview: his first answer is “I must admit I smoke,” as if he is afraid that the admission will count against him, and he answers her question about whether he knows everything or nothing only “after some hesitation,” suggesting that he is trying to decide which response is more likely to make a favorable impression on her.

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