The Green Lady
This is the genre of the text.
What is a fairy-tale / wonder-tale?
This is the Russian name of the 10-year-old boy in the story.
What is Conradin?
This is what the text is all about, in other words a summary of the text.
What is that you must cover the elements 'when', 'where', 'who' and 'what' - and say it all?
This is how Todorov defines the Fantastic.
What is "The Fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who knows only the laws of nature, confronting an apparently supernatural event"?
This is what we know about the author of the text.
What is that you say everything you know based on the preface to the story or the document 'Writer's Gallery'?
These are three characteristic fairy-tale features.
What are opening, ending, structure, time, place, stereotypes, development, simple language supernaturalism, message etc.
This is the name of the little boy’s guardian in the story and her family relation to the boy.
What is Mrs. De Ropp, who is the boy's cousin?
This is what the game of chess at the opening of the text symbolises.
What is the rivalry between the father and the son and the fact that the father is about to lose his position as king in the family?
This is what we mean when we say that the cracks in the structure of Mrs Drover's old house in London are an objective correlative of her state of mind.
What is that the cracks in the house symbolise Mrs Drover's fragile psyche?
This is what we know about the main character of the text.
What is that you say everything that you know based on your notes and your preparation for today?
These are tasks the little girl has to do at the Green Lady’s – and the reason why.
What are housewife tasks? The little girl must learn how to become a conscientious [samvittighedsfuld] mother / woman.
These are species of the two animals the little boy keeps in his shed in the garden.
What are a Houdan hen and a polecat-ferret?
This is what is understood by the Oedipus Complex in the text.
What is that the son and the mother seem to be in a relationship in which they keep secrets from the father?
This is what is understood by the Blitz.
What is that the Blitz (from German, "lightning") was the sustained strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Germany during the Second World War? Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941 there were major raids (attacks in which more than 100 tonnes of high explosives were dropped) on 16 British cities.
This is what is understood by the concept of the Gothic.
What is that you read the preface to 'The Black Cat' and google the answer?
This is what happens to the bad girl.
She dies and even loses her identity in the process, simply because she is so extremely self-centered as are most people.
This is the reason why the guardian dies in the shed.
What is that Conradin clearly suffers under the tyrannical guardianship and overprotection of Mrs De Ropp, which is why she must be punished? The text displays the souvereinty and power of children and animals over adults, who always think that they know better.
This is the reason why this text belongs to the realm of the Fantastic.
What is that the reader and the characters are not sure about how to interpret the events that take place in the text, for instance Herbert's death at the beginning or the knocks on the door at the end?
This is why "The Demon Lover" belongs to the genre of the Fantastic.
What is that neither we as readers nor Mrs Drover knows how to interpret the events of the story? Either the demon lover has engineered events so cleverly that he has, in fact, returned from the war, or he does not exist as all. Either way, Mrs Drover has become mad.
This is what the words 'nook', 'courtesy', 'frenzy' and 'rap', all on page 21 of the story, mean in Danish.
What is 'krog', 'høflighed', 'vanvid' and 'banke/slå'?
This is the reason why the father loves the bad girl more than the good girl.
What is that there is no apparent reason? This fatherly behaviour shows us how unjust the society / the social world in the fairy-tale is. The story is a good example of the fact that an articulation of protest on behalf of the poor population is needed and justified.
This is the message of the story.
What is that the values of a degenerate middle-class culture are deliberately confronted with the forces of nature and the imagination of a child? A child has been given a voice in literature and takes matters into its own hands.
This is the author who wrote the text back in 1902, that is a hundred and twenty years ago.
Who is W.W. Jacobs (1863-1943)?
This is what the demon lover from the title represents.
What is 1) Mrs Drover's fiancé, 2) a figment of Mrs Drover's imagination or 3) war itself?
This is why this text by Poe belongs to the realm of the Fantastic.
What is that we do not know whether the 'wild' events of the text can be explained logically or should be explained supernaturally?