Who said "when she appeared it was as though spring had finally arrived after a miserable winter"?

Help. This is killing me.

I bet you could google it.
Besides, if it's for an entrance exam, you should answer it yourself. They're admitting you, not us.



Post Edited (01-02-05 00:53)

Well, I don't think Jurisfiction would admit me even if I could answer it myself. Maybe I would ask Thursday the next time I see her. She seems to have no troubles with the exam at all heh.

I did try searching. Nothing came up. Fforde does that to us doesn't he. He would casually throw in a reference we think we should know, or that we once knew, and then we are up all night thinking about it.

But thanks anyway. If anyone out there needs help with their multiple choices, I am here to help. *wink* Good day.

Oops. I thought it was a REAL entrance exam. We tend to frown on doing other people's homework for them around here.

And I googled it too, just because I was curious, and couldn;t find anything either.

Extra thought: There's a Jurisfiction entrance exam? Where?



Post Edited (01-02-05 13:56)

WOLP. The exam starts on page 28, Commonwealth edition. Jump forward to page 154 and you would see my question. Careful tho. Minotaur loose 5 pages away!

Who said "when she appeared it was as though spring had finally arrived after a miserable winter"?

I think it's from Wodehouse, one of the "Jeeves and Wooster" stories. It sounds like something Bertie would say.

I don't know, it seems too intelligent for Bertie.

I think it's just one of those quotes that sounds like so many others we've all heard before - the arrival of the heroine being heralded as the birth of spring is hardly original!

i googled it & got this page! (it was the only thing that came up)

I've checked a few literary quotation search engines and none come up with it. This might be because:

a) The book it comes from hasn't been published yet.
b) It has been published but not in an online version.
c) It's from somewhere too obscure to attract quote collectors.
d) It doesn't exist at all except in the Entrance Exam.

It's a bit of a sickly sweet cliche, and I'm not sure if anyone would want to own up to it anyway. Here's a better one that actually says the opposite while using much the same terminology:

...Looking up, she showed him quite a young face, but one whose bloom and promise were all swept away, as if the haggard winter should unnaturally kill the spring...

Dickens, The Haunted Man.

This question can also be cross referenced over in Nextian Chat.

I'm pretty sure that quote is F. Scott Fitzgerald. If not The Great Gatsby, then one of his short stories. But my gut reaction when I read the quote was that it's from The Great Gatsby. True that it's a generic plot point, but when Gatsby sees Daisy for the first time after years of working to make hiimself worthy of her, that quote is pretty fitting.
I've tried to cross-reference the quote on a few Gatsby sites, but nothing. If anyone has a copy of the book, you could check it. All of my copies are at school (and I'm not going near that place again until August!) :)

I searched through Great Gatsby (happened to have a copy handy), but I didn't find the quote. It certainly seemed like it could have been his style, especially in his descriptions of Daisy, but it could be almost any romantic literature.

Could it possibly have come from a Daphne Farquitt?



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Metaphors be with you!

Bummer...I felt pretty confident on that one. Maybe it is just that it's one of those quotes that sounds familiar because it could fit so many different things.
Or maybe it's from one of Fitzgerald's short stories? It really does sound like his style. (I'm going to be stuck on this until I find it in something!!)