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you would advise me to do? I need hardly say I would do anything in the world to

ensure Gwendolen’s happiness." "Judge" [Jack to Lady Bracknell

48] Lady Bracknell has just learned that Algy is engaged to Cecily. Cecily meets

all of Lady Bracknell’s criteria, especially the money. Jack won’t allow Algy to

marry Cecily unless Lady Bracknell allows him to marry him. Jack is talking to

Lady Bracknell about Algernon’s request to marry Cecily. He states that this

will not happen because he finds that Algernon is a lyre and lacks any scruples.

He judges Algy unfit as a match for Cecily because of Algy’s Bunbury. Quote:

"It pains me very much to have to speak frankly to you, Lady Bracknell,

about your nephew, but the fact is that I do not approve at all of his moral

character. I suspect him of being untruthful." Algernon Moncrieff

"Curmudgeon" [Algernon to Lane 2] Algernon is talking with Lane about

the amount of wine consumed at his last dinner party. The comment that the wine

at a bachelor’s house is better than a married household is made by Lane. And

Lane infers his ideas of marriage to Algy. Algy feels that the social inferiors

should hold up a better moral standard for the upper crust about marriage. And

if they do not then they are worthless. After all it is their job to do so. It

is ironic that Algy should speak of lower class morals when he has none of his

own. His life is full of bunburying for entertainment. Quote: "Lane’s views

on marriage?Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on

earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of

moral responsibility." "Judge" [Algy to Jack 2] Jack finds out

that Gwendolen is due to arrive with her mother, Lady Bracknell. This fits

perfectly with his plan to purpose to Gwendolen. He wishes to recruit Algy to

help by getting Lady Bracknell out of the way. Algernon talks to Jack of his

conduct around Gwendolen and the lusty looks exchanged between the two of them.

Their conduct is unbecoming of Ladies and Gentlemen. Pg. 2 "My dear fellow,

the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as bad

as the way Gwendolen flirts with you." "Avant-garde" [Algy to

Jack 4] The last time Jack was at Algy’s house he left his cigarette case. Algy

is reading the inscription and says the case must not be Jack’s, because his

name is Ernest. This indicates Jack’s Bunbury. Algernon wants Jack to explain

who Cecily is. He demands that the cigarette case inscription is explained and

he is the first to mention it. Jack has been missing it for a while now. This is

the first time Jack gets caught in his lies. Quote: "Bring me that

cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room the last time he dined

here." "Fanatic" [Algy to Jack 5] Algy bombards Jack on every lie

he is telling about the inscription on the cigarette case. Cecily can’t be his

aunt when she calls him her Uncle Jack. Jack is really her guardian. Algy tells

Jack that his name must be Ernest. Jack explains he is Jack in the country and

Ernest in town. Ernest is really Jacks phantom brother. Algernon is quite

persistent about the true explanation of the inscription on the cigarette case.

For every little bit of reason he is given he continually pursues more and won’t

let the subject drop. He advances on Jack from every angle about the meaning of

the words. Quote: "Yes. But why does your aunt call you her uncle? ‘From

little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack.’ There is no

objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter

what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can’t quite make

out. Besides, your name isn’t Jack at all; it is Ernest."

"Conniver" [Algy to Lane 8] Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen have arrived

at Algy’s to find Jack there. Lady Bracknell is not pleased. Lady Bracknell

apologizes for being late. Lady Bracknell wishes to have some tea and cucumber

sandwiches, but Algy ate them all. Instead of telling her that he ate them, he

makes an acquisition to Lane about where they are seeing he was to prepare them.

This sets Lane up to lie and cover Algy’s indiscretion. Algy doesn’t have to

commit the bunbury some one else does. Quote: "Good Heavens! Lane! Why are

there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered them specially" "Jester"

[Algy to Jack18] Jack is proclaiming his love for Gwendolen when Algy interrupts

with a giggle. Jack wants to know why. Algy is thinking of Bunbury. Algy has

been listening in on Jack and Gwendolen’s conversation. Through the conversation

he has found out where Jack lives in the country. He has secretly written down

the address. The Bunbury he is thinking about is that he is going to the country

house as Ernest to meet Cecily. Quote: "Oh, I’m a little anxious about

Bunbury." "Bon-vivant" [Algy to Lane 18] Lane presents Algy with

a stack of bills and Algy destroys them and wishes to indulge in some spirits

instead of tending to his responsibilities. Quote: [Lane presents several

letters on a salver to Algernon. It is to be surmised that they are bills, as

Algernon, after looking at the envelopes tears them up] Algernon says "A

glass of sherry, Lane" "Architect" [Algy to Jack 40] Jack admits

to Gwendolen and Cecily that he has no brother at all and never did. The fact is

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