Southern Gothic Literature
The Southern gothic movement borrowed gothic elements such as _____.
“Honey, me an’ Fred, we met in a rumble seat eight months ago and we was practically on what you might call the way to the altar inside of a half an hour,” said Leota in a guttural voice, and bit a bobby pin open. “Course it don’t last. Mrs. Pike says nothin’ like that ever lasts.”
What does Leota’s dialect reveal about her?
Why is she not well educated?
blossoming of African American culture—especially in the arts—during the 1920s, centered in New York City
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The Great Depression virtually silenced the literary world; almost no important literature or literary movements came out of this period. True or False?
What does it mean to be partly true?
O'Connor doesn't name Bailey's wife but describes her as having a "face as broad and innocent as a cabbage." We can infer that ___.
Why was she not strong enough to stand up to the grandmother and not very bright?
Southern gothic authors wrote about the darker side of Southern society and the ways _____ caused it to crumble.
What is the Civil War?
Which two words accurately describe the true nature of the world the women inhabit in “The Petrified Man”?
What does it mean to be fragile and dangerous?
The package of government assistance mandated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to provide relief to Americans suffering from the effects of the Great Depression
What is The New Deal?
The era that began after World War II was called postmodernism because ______
Why did it focused on personal “reality” rather than objective reality?
How does the reader know that the grandmother is of the mindset of the Old South?
What is the language she uses to describe the African American boy? Why is the grandmother very concerned with how she appears to others?
The literary trend of the ____ & _____centuries was called gothic.
What are the 18th and 19th centuries?
Which statement from the story supports the theme that the women of the South were ultimately at the mercy of men?
“Mr. Fletcher can't do a thing with me.”
“Mr. Fletcher takes bending exercises every night of the world, I make him.”
“Her husband ought to could make her behave . . . He ought to put his foot down.
“An’ there was the freak show runnin’ night an’ day, not two steps away from my own beauty parlor, with Mr. Petrie just setting’ there waitin’.”
Why was the '...freak show runnin’ night an’ day, not two steps away from my own beauty parlor, with Mr. Petrie just setting’ there waitin’.”?
a movement away from objective reality toward a more personal view of reality, with a focus on one’s own experiences and reality
The “Beat Generation” was the nickname for _____.
What are the group of writers and thinkers centered in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the mid-1950s?
The plantation house that the grandmother sends Bailey searching for could be symbolic of _____
Why is the grandmother unable to move past the ways of the Old South?
This nation popularized gothic literature?
What is England?
“Huh! If I ever ast Fred’s advice we’d be floatin’ down the Yazoo River on a houseboat or somethin’ by this time,” said Leota. “I’m sick of Fred. I tole him to go over to Vicksburg.”
How does Welty’s depiction of men and women contrast with the social and gender codes of the Old South? Select all that apply.
Why are women more vulnerable now and not rely on men? Why were men in the Old South protective and chivalrous toward their ladies?
the national effort of the 1950s and 1960s led primarily by blacks to end segregation and to secure equal rights in American politics and culture
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
New voices in the 1950s and 1960s called for change in which of the following areas?
What are civil and women's rights?
What is O'Connor leading the reader to believe about the grandmother when she says "in my time"?
Why is she clinging to the past?
Southern gothic is a genre with a mood that combines southern details, such as small-town life, with____ or ____.
What are terror and suspense?
“Mr. Fletcher would beat you on the head if you didn’t have it now,” said Leota reasonably. “After going this far.”
Mrs. Fletcher sat up straight. “Mr. Fletcher can’t do a thing with me.”
“He can’t!” Leota winked at herself in the mirror.
“No siree, he can’t. If he so much as raises his voice against me, he knows good and well I’ll have one of my sick headaches, and then I’m just not fit to live with. And if I really look that pregnant already—“
What mood is reflected by Mrs. Fletcher’s language?
What is rebellious?
The legal and/or social separation of black and white Americans in the use of public facilities
What is segregation?
As a whole, the literature of the first two decades after World War II was characterized by ______.
What is protest and unrest?
How would the story be different if the grandmother had not recognized The Misfit?
Why might the family not have been killed?