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"You can call it a funeral if you want. To her it's Christmas."

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Did Sherman ever really love Maria or is it all in his imagination?

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""- little crumbs fall off all the bonds and lodge in the cracks in the sidewalk." He paused and smiled confidently...and wondered... Why had he used this hateful phrase of Judy's?" (579)

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Why was fallow so eager to write the article about Maria and Sherman and what was he going to expose?

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How would describe what Judy is feeling when it says, "'you're easily pleased.' Her voice was as far off as her gaze" (581).

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"Alas, the poor devil is done for, dead and gone. But the quick and the living—ah!—there you have something. They still burn with the lovely social wattage of the city!" (593)

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"And everyone turned his head. But of course! This was Manhattan. The Upper East Side! The dear deceased, who reposeth in that box up front? Alas, the poor devil is done for, dead and gone." -Pg 593

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The very word gay popped into Sherman's head spontaneously. (Yes, it is true. A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested)(576).

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Why is there a difference between Sherman's friends and their reactions and Judy's friends and their reactions? They are all still white New York so why do some approve and some don't?

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Why is Sherman so easily pleased by attention?

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Why does Sherman feel the need to entertain the same people who dubbed him at the last dinner?

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"Eagerly they stared at him, the entire bouquet-- his bouquet..." (577)

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They still burn with the lovely social wattage of the city! Not who leaveth, but who cometh in! Let us by all means illuminate them and their measure radiance!(593).

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We have only witnessed Maria and Sherman's discussion through the eyes of Fallow, and we haven't heard much. Do you think Sherman was able to get anything out of Maria, or was she smart and didn't say anything?

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Maria (mourning wife or oscar worthy actress )

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Maria (mourning wife or oscar worthy actress )

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During the funeral, Fallow describes Maria as teary-eyed and very emotional yet on pg 599 when she is talking with him, Fallow mentions how "She was able to put a coquettish edge even on a widow's thanks." How much of the pain and sadness that Maria shows is genuine? Any of it? All of it?

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"No black accent at all, thought the mayor" (586).

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"No black accent at all, thought the mayor" (586).

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"That's not your fault," said Sheldon. "The guy..." (584)

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"That's not your fault," said Sheldon. "The guy..." (584)

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"I can offer you some very sound advice. Don't ever . . . get caught up in the CJS . . .in this city" (580).

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"I can offer you some very sound advice. Don't ever . . . get caught up in the CJS . . .in this city" (580).