Characters
Who is the owner of the house
Sadie Grimes
The name of the town which the story is set
Ivy Corners
What does the lemonade symbolize
revenge
Who is the author?
Henry Slesar
What is the name of the character who is responsible for listing the house for sale
Aaron Hackler
What is the central conflict of the story?
Mrs. Grimes's pursuit of revenge against Mr. Waterbury
What does the money symbolize?
Greed
The tone of the story gradually shifts from hopeful to this...
unsettling or ominious
This character has a motive for wanting to purchase this specific house
Mr. Waterbury
What is the climax of the story
Mrs. Grimes, who had been plotting revenge for five years, realizes this strange buyer is the man who killed her son for stolen money hidden in the house.
What does the house symbolize?
Memories of the Grimes' family
The retire
Michael
What trap does Mrs. Grimes set to catch her son's killer
She set the price of her house higher than it is actually worth for the traditional buyer
"Endless wait" and "monstrous silence"
hyperbole
What is Mr. Waterbury's cause of death?
poisoning from the lemonade
The character who is patient yet manipulative
Sadie Grimes
What is the resolution to the story?
Mr. Waterbury dies, and Mrs. Grimes achieves her long-awaited revenge.
Mr. Waterbury was killed in the same house where he killed someone
situational irony
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