Answer the questions

1. Why is being on stage the greatest job in the world? 2. Why did Richard call Guy the luckiest man in the world? 3. Why did Guy decide to check the two hundred pounds in front of his friends? Why did he pretend to be used to giving autographs? What is the implication of the phrase ‘I was engineering envy’? 4. What career opportunities were open to school leavers in Dorking? Why did Guy refuse to work for Friends Provident? What was everybody’s reaction to Guy’s decision? 5. Why was Paris a revelation for Guy? Why did Guy’s mime shows fall flat on the audiences? Why were they so poorly attended? Do you think Guy was a talented artist or did he overestimate himself? Do you think a mime artist should raise burning social issues rather than entertain the public? What makes you think so? 7. How did Guy’s friends manage to make a career? What social position did they achieve? 8. Why do you think Guy and Carol decided to have a modest wedding at the registry office? What kind of husband did Guy turn out to be? Why didn’t he make a good husband? Why did his wife feel discontent with her position in the town? 9. What made Guy take some drastic action? What kind of work did he start doing? 10. What brought him to Friends Provident? What were his relationships with his former friends like? Was Guy mature enough to face up to the realities of life? Why is the story entitled “Walking into the Wind”? Why is it necessary to find a proper balance between one’s ambition and responsibility

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