Plot
Twyla is embarrassed of her mother's clothes and behavior in this story.
What is "Recitatif"?
This is the protagonist in "A Worn Path."
Who is Phoenix?
This is a row of curves.
What is scallop?
This lens would consider this question:
What role does class play in work?
What is Marxist?
This word means a shallow boat.
What is a skiff?
This is the reaction of Bailey in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" when the cat jumps on him.
Bailey in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" inappropriately and cruelly throws this animal out of the window of the car.
What is a cat?
This describes a prejudice person who is unreasonably dedicated to a belief.
What is a bigot?
This lens would consider this question:
Is the main character in the story anything like you?
What is Reader Response?
She wrote "Charles."
Who is Shirley Jackson?
This animal causes Phoenix to fall over in "A Worn Path."
What is a dog?
These two characters in "Recitatif" are poor students.
Who are Twyla and Roberta?
This is an aggressive dog.
What is a cur?
This lens would consider this question:
What roles, occupations, or actions do the women characters engage in?
What is Feminist?
Louise utters this word in the story "The Story of an Hour."
What is, "Free"?
In "The Story of an Hour," Louise's sister is gentle when telling her of her husband's death because of her weakness in this body part.
What is her heart?
The husband of the protagonist in "The Yellow Wallpaper" practices this profession.
What is a physician?
This describes a high degree of happiness.
What is felicity?
This lens would consider this question:
Which behaviors of the characters are conscious ones?
What is Psychoanalytical/ Psychological?
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is mostly set in this room in the house.
What is the nursery?
In "The Story of an Hour," Louise's death is ironic because she dies not due to joy but to shock and horror over this news.
What is that her husband is not dead?
This character sets off a series of events that lead to an accident when she remembers that the plantation she recalls is not in Georgia.
Who is the grandmother?
This describes contemptuous mockery of someone.
What is derision?
This lens would consider this question:
What is the work's major organizing principle?
What is Formalist?
This lens would consider this question:
Do any specific allusions to myths shed light on the text?
What is Archetypal?