All About Katherine Ann Porter
Her birth name
Callie Russel Porter
Her experiences as a child often influences her fiction, her characters are often consumed by.... [HINT: She belongs to an elite social class.]
Internal sense of self-worth and a radically different set of external realities
What did the husband forget in his trip to the store, and it's weight
two pounds of coffee
Porter uses these to symbolize deeper and unresolved issues in the marriage
Everyday objects
"He brought home a ___ instead of coffee."
24 yard coil of rope
The age when Porter's formal education has ended
14
The artistic movement that Porter followed
modernist
The story takes place in this location
the kitchen
What did forgetting the coffee symbolize
The husband’s consistent inability to center his wife and her needs
"The wife accused him of staying town to see a ___."
woman
Her family relied on these donations
Clothes and supplies
Her Collected Stories won these two coveted awards in the writing industry
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
What did the wife suspect had kept her husband in town
an affair
Representing the strained relationship, entanglement, and unresolved issues between the couple.
The rope
"The argument showed how small mistakes could lead to ___ conflicts."
larger
Her family came from wealthy landowners and farmers from this state.
Kentucky
In her lifetime, Porter completed this number of short stories
What is "27"?
What was the wife worried about not having enough time for
Sunning the mattresses
Symbolizing the potential breakage and irreparable damage within their marriage
The broken eggs
"In the end, the fight over coffee and rope is really about ___."
resentment and miscommunication
This figure in Porter's life that enforced "upper class" social education
Aunt Cat
Similar to this successful male writer, Porter also began her writing career as a journalist
Ernest Hemingway
What was the reason for the husband to buy the ropes
because he wanted to
What is "Rope" mainly about?
References to the man (or husband)'s unwillingness or inability to fully respect and remember his wife's desires.
"___ ___ often manifest in a relationship, not through explicit abuse or mistreatment."
gender dynamics