JAMB - Literature In English (1997 - No. 9)
This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
'...My son is not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.'
What provokes this response from the speaker is the accusation that
'...My son is not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.'
What provokes this response from the speaker is the accusation that
Tony is in reality without a fortune
Tony is not a man of consequence
Marlow is too bashful and reserved
Tony has not had a good breeding
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