“This is your big surprise.”
(i) Where has this been said in the play?
(ii) What is the surprise?
Answers
“This is your big surprise.”
(i) Where has this been said in the play?
(ii) What is the surprise?
(i) This statement has been said twice in the play.
Once when the intruder is trying to scare Gerrard and the second time when Gerrard is explaining him why he won’t kill him for a good reason.
(ii) The surprise in the first utterance of the statement is that the intruder expresses his intention to kill Gerrard.
The surprise in the second utterance of the statement is that Gerrard explains him that he himself is a criminal on the run which is why it won’t do any good to the intruder to kill him and steal his identity.
(i) This statement has been said twice in the play. Once when the intruder is trying to scare Gerrard and the second time when Gerrard is explaining him why he won’t kill him for a good reason.
(ii) When the intruder said this line, the surprise was that he was going to kill Gerrard and take over his identity. He told him that as Vincent Charles Gerrard, he would be free to go places and do nothing .