The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland by Ronald Carter & John McRae

Author:Ronald Carter & John McRae [Carter, Ronald]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780415839747
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

From the outset Lady Bracknell deliberately misconstrues Jack’s words, punning on the verb ‘to lose’. Even her ‘minor matters’ is socially not how one would expect the subject of parents to be treated. She continues to pick up on and repeat unexpected parts of Jack’s discourse – and her failure to respond or interact when Jack has given her the information he considers necessary forces him into embarrassing pauses and comically irrelevant details: ‘Worthing is a place in Sussex’, which still elicits no response from his interlocutor, and he is forced into the wondrously banal assertion, ‘It is a seaside resort.’ What she picks up on is again not the most obviously relevant information – ‘charitable’, ‘first class ticket’ and, noticeably ‘this seaside resort’. But she insists on rephrasing her earlier ‘Where’, which she feels Jack has not adequately answered. The climactic answers crown the series of seemingly absurd and irrelevant turns with disconcertingly direct answers to direct questions.

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