Villette - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

In the last chapter, the narrator of this novel interrupts the description of a storm by saying “here pause: pause at once,” so that “sunny imaginations” can “picture union and a happy succeeding life.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this 1853 novel whose ending leaves the main love interest’s fate ambiguous. Its last paragraph imagines Madame Beck, Père Silas, and Madame Walravens living long, prosperous lives.

ANSWER: Villette

[10e] The ambiguous ending of Villette contrasts with the ending of this novel by the same author. This novel’s last chapter begins by stating “Reader, I married him” in reference to Mr. Rochester.

ANSWER: Jane Eyre [or Jane Eyre: An Autobiography] (Charlotte Brontë wrote both novels.)

[10m] The last paragraphs of Jane Eyre are devoted to this character, who ends the novel by traveling to India as a missionary.

ANSWER: St John (“SIN-jin”) Rivers [or St John Eyre Rivers; reject “John”]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	24	18.75	100%	75%	13%

Data


WUSTL A	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Duke A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Cornell A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Florida A	10	10	10	30
Florida B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Houston A	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	Iowa State A	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Minnesota A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley A	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley B	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Penn State A	Virginia A	0	10	10	20
WUSTL B	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
Yale B	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Harvard A	Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Penn A	0	10	10	20