In the character descriptions preceding the play, Jim is described as a "nice, ordinary, young man." He is the emissary from the world of normality. Yet this ordinary and simple person, seemingly out of place with the other characters, plays an important role in the climax of the play.
The audience is forewarned of Jim's character even before he makes his first appearance. Tom tells Amanda that the long-awaited gentleman caller is soon to come. Tom refers to Jim as a plain person, someone over whom there is no need to make a fuss. He earns only slightly more than does Tom and can in no way be compared to the magnificent gentlemen callers that Amanda used to have.
Jim's plainness is seen in his every action. He is interested in sports and does not understand Tom's more illusory ambitions to escape from the warehouse. His conversation shows him to be quite ordinary and plain. Thus, while Jim is the long-awaited gentleman caller, he is not a prize except in Laura's mind.
The ordinary aspect of Jim's character seems to come to life in his conversation with Laura. But it is contact with the ordinary that Laura needs. Thus it is not surprising that the ordinary seems to Laura to be the essence of magnificence. And since Laura had known Jim in high school when he was the all-American boy, she could never bring herself to look on him now in any way other than exceptional. He is the one boy that she has had a crush on. He is her ideal.
The correct answer is:
A. The odd collection of guests.
B. The lack of detail about the haunted room experiment.
D. The scene in the bedroom when the picture “haunts” the narrator.
F. The breakfast scene, when the narrator is revealed as the man who saw the ghost.
H. The host’s explanation, which promises to reveal the purpose of the story.
Irving uses these 5 things to build suspense in the story.
The prepositional phrase is “from Minnesota”
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How can we explain the story of the much-enduring man who sailed ten years on the sea after the sack of Troy?
O, the encounters he had with the Cyclops, Lotus-Eaters, Aeolus' winds, Sirens, Circe, Scylla, Charybdis, Cattle of Helios, Calypso and even in the underworld.
Many were the men and ships he lost after angering the gods Poseidon and Helios.
Everyone loved one on Ithaca kept longing for his return and hoping he would rid them of Penelope's suitors.
Rejoicing occurred and reunions took place after the beggar Odysseus stringed his bow and slaughtered the suitors in his halls.
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