Authors
The author who wrote Of Mice and Men
Who is John Steinbeck?
This character from a Faulkner short story never paid any taxes to Jefferson County.
Who was Emily Grierson?
Of Mice and Men tells readers that this is impossible.
These are "indigenous features" of American Gothic text. (Name one)
What are the Puritan legacy, race, and gender?
The settings of Southern Gothic stories are often this.
What are small towns?
One of the most influential authors of Southern Gothic, famous for works such as The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.
Who was William Faulkner?
In "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," this character marries off her daughter in order to have a man around to help fix things on the property.
Who is Lucynell?
This character lives in isolation due to racial segregation.
Who is Crooks?
A characteristic unique to Southern Gothic, and can be considered a subgenre to Southern Gothic.
What is the grotesque?
Candy's dog was killed by this character.
The author of many grotesque stories, such as "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "Good Country People."
Who was Flannery O'Connor?
This character in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" was missing an arm.
Who is Shiftlet?
This moment foreshadows the death of Lennie in chapter 6.
What is the "mercy killing" of Candy's dog?
Moral depravity is often represented by this.
What is physical deformity?
This was the century in which Gothic literature became a genre.
What is the 1700s?
An influential author of American Gothic, famous for short stories and poems like "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Raven."
Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
The smell around the Grierson property was caused by this.
Who is the body of Homer, Emily's (former) fiancé?
The location and time period of Of Mice and Men.
What is Salinas, California, during the Great Depression?
This type of building and/or property is often used in Southern Gothic instead of castles.
What are plantations?
This term means "comically or repulsively ugly or distorted."
What is grotesque?
A famous contemporary writer of Southern Gothic, famous for novels like The Road and No Country for Old Men.
Who is Cormac McCarthy?
The Grierson family represented this.
What is tradition and the Antebellum South?
The farm represents this concept to Lennie, George, and Candy.
What is freedom?
Slavery, racism, and patriarchy are historical realities that make ___________ an especially great place for Gothic fiction.
What is the American South?
Three ways Emily Grierson is described in "A Rose for Emily."
What are some options: short, fat, isolated, rich, lonely, unmarried, old, dead, proud?