Question

While sitting on a bench, this character thinks about the moment six years earlier when a man silently walked up behind her and proposed, but is distracted by a different man who silently walks up behind her and confesses his love. During one of the gatherings this character hosts every Thursday, she secretly gives romantic advice to a man she met as a child in Neufchatel. This character reneges on a promise to go to Lockleigh, an estate home to a nobleman and his two sisters. This character first meets her aunt in a “dreary” house in (*) Albany. This character fails to convince her daughter-in-law Pansy to leave a convent (10[1])and come to (-5[1])Gardencourt, (10[1])where this woman’s cousin Ralph Touchett is dying. The desperate Caspar Goodwood pursues this woman (10[1])since she is unhappily married to Gilbert Osmond. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Isabel Archer [accept any underlined portion; accept Mrs. Osmond until “Osmond” is said, prompt after; prompt on Osmond until “Osmond” is said, reject after]
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countrySimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut10910
Joey SunModerator Can't Neg me While in Alphaas rational as the square root of two power bottoms112-5
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers11310
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken12810
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha1520
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit15210

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%100%139.00
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