She is compassionate, kind, and outgoing. The book & movie are actually really good, i’d recommend the movie.
Discussing soldiers from the same side firing at their own men probably from crossfire
Feminist movement was the movement that they were in
Steve wanted to play professional basketball, however he was only 5'8.
In lines 29-34 Shylock gives his reason.
"Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarrite, conjured the devil onto! I will buy with you, sell with you talk with you, walk with you and so following; but I will not eat with you, nor pray with you."
Shylock's reasons are to do with his own religious beliefs.