Quiz one Flashcards
1
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Young Goodman Brown
A
Nathaniel Hawthrone
- Religious man goes to forest
- Fights inner demons
- Comes back different prospective on people and religion
2
Q
The Fall of the House of Usher
A
Poe
- Gothic
- Rodrick Usher
- Sister dies
- House falls with the death of the Ushers
3
Q
Bartleby the Scrivener
A
Melville
- Weird man Bartleby
- Character: Gingernut, Turkey (Morning), Nippers (Afternoon)
- “I prefer not to”
4
Q
The Yellow Wall-Paper
A
Gilman
- Woman with mental issuse (PPD)
- Husband a doctor (Weir Mitchell rest method)
- Woman in the wall
- She goes insane, John collapses
5
Q
The Open Boat
A
Crane
- Characters: The cook, The oiler(billie), The correspondent, The captain
- Billie Dies
- “If I come all this way to die..”
6
Q
Hills Like White Elephants
A
Hemingway
- Abortion
- In Spain, American Man and “the girl”
- Light and shadow
- Light = her wanting the kid, he doesn’t like that
7
Q
The Dead
A
Joyce
- Gabriel: High-class; awkward around lower class
- Jeleous of wife’s love for her dead ex
- Feels lust and hate for her
- Snow
- Deadening routines
- Feels sad he will never have the passion that his wife’s ex-lover felt
8
Q
The Swimmer
A
Cheever
- Egotistical man; Neddy
- Descent of his life
- Time makes no sense
9
Q
Good Country People
A
O’Connor
- Hulga and Manley Pointer
- Hulga full of herself
- Manley “good country folk”
- Destroy of stereotype and bible
10
Q
A Good Man is Hard to Find
A
O’Connor
- Seriel Killer
- Innocent Grandmother
- Whole family dies
11
Q
Sonny’s Blues
A
Baldwin
- Brother heroine addict
- Struggle of letting go of your roots
- Jazz/blues music
12
Q
Going to Meet the Man
A
Baldwin
- Fetish cop
- Learned racism
- Lynching
13
Q
Boys and Girls
A
Munro
- Brother Larid
- Two horses; Flora (released) and Mac (old and shot)
14
Q
The Lottery
A
Jackson
- Traditions die hard
- Husband rats out wife
- Stone her to death (biblical)
15
Q
Harrison Bergeron
A
Vonnegut
- Everyone equal
- Handicap general ensure equality (even though he himself is above everyone)
- Son tries to rebel and his shot and killed (religious symbolism)
