At the end of a short story, a man in this profession is found on the beach with his throat slit, implied to have committed suicide after sleeping with a woman that wasn’t his wife. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this profession of a man who threatens to have Sadie Thompson diverted to San Francisco and arrested unless she changes her flamboyant behavior like partying and singing with sailors.
ANSWER: missionary [prompt on reverend or priest or clergyman by asking “what is the man’s primary profession he is introduced as?”]
[10m] The missionary Davidson appears in this story by W. Somerset Maugham. Dr. Macphail observes that this story’s title phenomenon is “unmerciful and somehow terrible” unlike the soft and gentle English counterpart.
ANSWER: “Rain”
[10e] At the end of “Rain,” Sadie Thompson tells Dr. Macphail that all men are “filthy, dirty” animals of this kind. At the end of Animal Farm, these animals and humans have become indistinguishable from each other.
ANSWER: pigs [accept boars]
<JK, British Literature>