Solution of Chapter 3. A Wedding in Brownsville (Kaleidoscope Book)

What do you understand of Dr. Margolin’s past? How does it affect his present life?

What was Dr. Margolin’s attitude towards his profession?

What is Dr. Margolin’s view of the kind of life the American Jewish community leads?

What were the personality traits that endeared Dr. Margolin to others in his community?

Why do you think Dr. Margolin had the curious experience at the wedding hall?

Was the encounter with Raizel an illusion or was the carousing at the wedding-hall illusory? Was Dr. Margolin the victim of the accident and was his astral body hovering in the world of twilight?

Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement in France between the two World Wars. Its basic idea is that the automatic, illogical and uncontrolled associations of the mind represent a higher reality than the world of practical life and ordinary literature. Do you think this story could be loosely classified as surrealistic? What elements in this story would support the idea?

Comment on the technique used by the author to convey the gruesome realities of the war and its devastating effect on the psyche of human beings through an intense personal experience.

Examine the paragraph beginning ‘Some time later the taxi started moving again...’ for variety in sentence length and sentence structure.

Who were the Senciminers?

Why did Dr. Margolin not particularly want his wife to accompany him to the wedding?

What is the Hippocratic oath?

What topic does the merry banter the wedding invariably lead to?

Who was the woman that Dr Margolin suddenly encountered at the wedding?

What were the events that led to his confused state of mind?