On the east steps the Air Force Band in uniforms of Air Force blue
is playing hard and loud, but - queer-
the music doesn't quite come through
In the stanza above the poet contrasts the blue uniforms with the lack of music. Discuss how this makes you feel about
the playing of the music.

2. helmer. “you are an odd little soul. very like your father. you always find some new way of wheedling money out of me, and, as soon as you have got it, it seems to melt in your hands. you never know where it has gone. still, one must take you as you are. it is in the blood; for indeed it is true that you can inherit these things, nora.” what “things” can you inherit? what has nora inherited from her father?