1) The setting of the story is in Venice, maybe near a body of water because they talk about ship ports and trade throughout the first act. The culture is very different because they talk about "wooing" the princess and needing money to attract her which isn't the natural norm of today's society. Also, borrowing money was frowned upon because there was no security of money.
2) Antonio worries abut never knowing what is bothering him and sort of focuses on other people's problems to avoid facing his own problems like when he agreed to help his friend Bassanio get his one true love Portia and he needed money so it distracted Antonio from his depression and struggles.
3) Bassanio asks Antonio for money to help attract the attention of Portia which is the girl Bassanio has fallen for but he doesn't want to show up empty handed and therefore he needs a lot of money so he asks Antonio for a loan.
4) Portia seems very picky when choosing a husband because when Nerissa was reading the list of suitors she had rather rude comments about them and turned them all away. So when another servant came in and said more suitors had come to compete for the hand of Portia, she decided to give them a chance and say that she will choose one of the 5 men and turn away the other 4 who do not treat her like anything other than a person instead of a prize to be won.
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