Terms and Definitions
Mirrored texts mimic, at least, this thing.
What is theme and content?
Who is Amy Tan?
The author of "The Secret Goldfish."
Who is David Means?
The author of "A Pair of Silk Stockings."
Who is Kate Chopin?
The author of "The Garden Party."
Who is Katherine Mansfield?
The outcome of mirrored texts is that the narratives, themselves, are not this.
What is the same?
Tan's father does this to show his appreciation of the mother's cooking.
What is belch?
The father uses soap to remove this item.
What is his wedding ring?
Who is Mrs. Sommers?
The name of the mother in "The Garden Party."
Who is Mrs. Sheridan?
The rise in cities, also called this, is one outcome of modernism.
What is urbanization (or industrialization)?
Tan feels this way about the dinner her mother has prepared.
What is ashamed?
The father tells the mother that he is sleeping in the city for this reason.
What is he is working late and is showing dedication to his job?
The items that the mother is supposed to purchase for her children.
What are clothes?
The flowers that the mother orders in great volumes.
What are canna lilies?
Modernism may challenge traditional religion in exchange for reliance on this field of study.
What is psychology?
Tan's mother purchases this item to help Tan be "more American."
What is a mini-skirt?
The mother's father flushes her deceased fish into this pond.
What is Grayling Pond?
The class of the family in "A Pair of Silk Stockings."
What is lower class?
The class of the main family in "The Garden Party."
What is upper class?
The telephone in "The Garden Party" symbolizes modernist advances in these fields.
What are technology and science?
Tan realizes this about the food that the mother cooked.
What is it was her favorite foods/meal?
What is his resilience mirroring the mother's survival in her chaotic family and grim marriage?
What is purchase gloves, silk stockings, lunch, and a ticket to an afternoon show?
Laura Sheridan takes these items to the grieving family in the cottages, and she does so for this reason.
What is leftover food from the garden party? What is because she feels her family's sense of privilege have left them unaware of the life experiences of people living in the cottages?