Complete all of these extra credit questions. Print the answers and bring them to our next class or email them to my D2l email by Friday, March 24 at 10 am. Large answer questions will be 10 points. Short answer questions will be 6 points. Whatever you answer correctly will be added up and placed for you at the end of the semester wherever you need extra points to help your grade increase.
Short Answer:
6 points each
• What is Alice’s full real name? Alice Ayres
• Whose nickname is Buster? Alice
• What’s the name of the bridge Alice was on when Dan “rescued” her? Black-Friars Bridge
• What is the name of the park where Alice gets her name? Postman’s Park
• What is the name of the picture that Anna took of Alice? Young woman London
• What name does Anna suggest for Dan’s book? The Aquarium
• What kind of doctor is Larry? A dermatologist
• What does Dan, pretending to be Anna on the net, tell Larry they will be going to when they meet? London Zoo. The Aquarium
• What does Dan, pretending to be Anna, call Larry in the chat room? The Sultan
• What is Dan’s full name? Daniel Woolf
• What do Larry and Anna call Dan? Cupid
• What is the Champagne room called in the strip club where Alice works? The Paradise Suite
• What does Alice give Larry for his birthday? A Newton’s Cradle
• Whose sweater is Alice wearing when she meets Anna at the gallery? Dan’s
• In the last scene, who is Larry engaged to? Polly
Long Answer Questions
10 points each
• What is the Story of Closer?
The story of Closer, set in the nineties, involves fours characters; Dan, Alice, Anna and Larry depicting the sexual values of the moment. The four are caught up in an intricate web of couples swapping, sexual immorality, bad manners and need to fulfill their intimate longing. Alice and Dan are brought together by an escape from the jaws of death where Alice is involved in an accident, and Dan takes her to receive medical attention. Later they become lovers. Anna, the photographer who makes manipulation look like truthfulness, meets Larry a doctor. Through their interaction, the quartet shows how it feels to be loved, hurt and be jealous.
• What is the Plot of Closer?
Introduction
The play starts by Alice a stripper and Dan a writer spotting each other on the opposite side of the road in a busy city street. Unfortunately, Alice is not keen while crossing the road and she ends up having an accident. Dan being a good Samaritan, rushes her to the hospital where she gets treated and discharged eventually, Dan ends up asking for her name, and soon they become lovers (BookRags, 2018).
Rising action
Later, Dan writes a novel regarding Alice's life. In a bid to include photos in their book they seek the services of Anna, a photographer. At the slightest chance of meeting, Dan and Anna share a moment of passion before she finds out that Dan is in a relationship with Alice. Later in the year, using technology, Dan joins the cybersex chat room and meets Larry a doctor, canceling his duty calls with one hand so that he has the other free for trouser work. In the encounter, Dan pretends to be Anna and that she is ready for a sexual meeting with Larry who is clueless about the pretense. Dan sends an invitation to Larry to meet at the aquarium where they often met with Anna. Larry arrived at the exact place and realized that she lied. Anna and Larry later became lovers.
Climax
Months later, Larry meets Alice fully aware that they are a couple. On the other hand, Dan convinces Anna to be romantic with him. The two cheat on their lovers for almost a year. Dan and Anna eventually confess to their partners leaving their relationship for one
another while Anna and Larry marry elsewhere. Heartbroken by the turn of events, Alice reverts to being a stripper. Larry meets Alice in a club once again and asks for sex explicitly, but Alice is adamant.
Falling action
Anna and Larry meet over a cup of coffee where Larry demands Anna to sign the divorce papers, but she pegs a condition of one round of sexual encounter before she signs it and leaves him alone, forever. Dan learns of the affair later on and ends up confronting Larry to return to Anna who in turns informs him of Alice's whereabouts.
Resolution
Allice returns to the United States together with Dan where they argued against Alice having sex with Larry, and they broke up.
• Who is(are) the protagonist(s)? Give info. To back it up.
Dan is the protagonist. Dan who works as an obituary writer aspires to write novels.
From the play, Dan introduced as the first character where he rescues Alice in Black-friars bridge accident and takes her to the hospital. A year later he writes a novel about Alice’ life. He forms the introduction and the plot because he meets Alice while he is still in another relationship with another woman named Ruth. Dan depicts a restless hardened man who doesn’t believe in soft words and is fond of moral and sexual deception. He tends to think more with his mouth open than brain for example when he got back with Alice in spite of faithfulness forces her to confess which later leads to break off the relationship. Through Dan, the author advances the main plot of the play depicting the failure of men to achieve spiritual and sexual intimacy. When he met Anna, he thought true love was a reality, only to let that go because he is impulse driven.
• Who is(are) the antagonist(s)? Give info to back it up.
Larry is seen as the antagonist because he gives Dan strong competition when it comes to Anna and Alice relationship and intentionally does things to ensure that Dan is not at peace with his relationship with Anna. For instance, when she decides to engage in a sexual encounter with Dan's woman to sign the divorce papers. Larry has emotional intimacy issues just like Dan. Ironically, Larry as a doctor is expected to help heal patients however outside his profession; he destroys anyone who harms or displeases him. Through cyberchat, he meets with Anna but later divorce because of their cheating in their marriage. Larry is the exact opposite of Dan. He believes in facts.
Anna and Alice perceived as losers in this maze of a romantic relationship. They end up used, misused, isolated and lonely. Alice dies alone in the city with no one to identify her body. Anna depicts how women end up in tragic lustful relationships. Men are left to explore and continue with life as if nothing happened.
• What is a crisis in Closer?
The crisis in Closer is the failure of men and women to achieve a satisfying spiritual and sexual intimacy. The love triangle between the four characters who find different qualities in their partners depicts the clueless nature of human beings when it comes to matters of love. The play describes romantic turmoil involving overlapping relationships and betrayals. In the end, scenes that begin in mutual passion regardless of the moral values, spiral into hatred within a short period. The author shows that in search for pure love one will experience the pain of love severally in your life.
• What is the climax?
The climax of the play is when Larry meets Alice months later fully aware that they are a couple with Dan. On the other hand, Dan convinces Anna to be romantic with him fully aware that she’s Larry’s lover (Marber, 1997). The two cheat on their lovers repeatedly without the sense of remorse even though Dan and Anna eventually confess to their partners leaving their relationship for one another while Anna and Larry marry elsewhere. Heartbroken by the turn of events, Alice reverts to being a stripper. Larry meets Alice in a club once again and asks for sex explicitly, but Alice refuses.
Works Cited
BookRags. (2018, 12 11). bookrags.com. Retrieved from Closer - Scene 1 Summary " Analysis: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-closer/chapanal001.html
Marber, P. (1997). Closer.
London: Methuen Drama.
