Regionalism Test Flashcards
What region did they write for?
Sherwood Anderson
Mid-western
What region did they write for?
Sinclair Lewis
Mid-western
What region did they write for?
James Thurber
Mid-Western
What region did they write for?
Willa Cather
Western
What region did they write for?
Bret Harte
Western
What region did they write for?
Gertrude Simmons Bonnie
Great Plains
What region did they write for? Harper Lee
Southern
What region did they write for?
Kate Chopin
Southern
What region did they write for?
Edith Wharton
New England
Harriet Beecher Stowe
New England
Born and raised in Jackson MS
Eudora Welty
Had an eyeball injury as a child
James Thurber
Born in savannah GA
Flannery O’ Conner
Won Nobel Prize in 1962
John Steinbeck
Part of the southern renaissance
Eudora Welty
Writer, reporter, humorist, cartoonist
James Thurber
Became a widow at 32
Kate Chopin
Writing contained hypocrisy
Flannery O Conner
Father died in a railroad accident
Kate Chopin
Publishes first work at 11, but his family didn’t like it
Bret Harte
Awarded the national institute of arts and letters gold medal for fiction in 1972
Eudora Welty
A devout Christian who dealt with concepts of a man’s fall from grace
Flannery O Conner
Worked as a messenger for Wells Fargo
Bret Harte
Settings and plot often center around stories of mining camps and towns
Bret Harte
Wrote about feelings specifically the feelings of women and their desire for independence
Kate Chopin
Characters seem monstrous
Flannery O Conner
Wrote A Yellow Dog
Bret Harte
Critics thought his work was too sentimental
Bret Harte
Received the gold medal of the national institute American academy of arts and letters for her body of work
Willa Cather
Lived in New York and Nebraska
Willa Cather
Robert Frost famous work
“The Gift Outright”
Harriet Beecher Stowe famous work
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Edith Wharton famous work
Ethan Frome
William Faulkner famous work
As I Lay Dying
Kate Chopin famous work
The Awakening
“The Story of an Hour” “The Storm” “Desiree’s Baby” “A Pair of Silk Stockings” “A Respectable Woman”
Harper Lee famous work
To Kill a Mockingbird
Flannery O Conner famous work
“A Good Man is Hard to Find”
“The Life you Save may be Your Own”
Wise Beard
Eudora welty famous work
“A Worn Path”
“Death of a Traveling Salesman”
“A Curtain of Green”
Delta Wedding
James Thurber famous work
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Sherwood Anderson famous work
“Hands”
Mark Twain famous work
Life on the Mississippi
John Steinbeck famous work
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
Grapes of Wrath
Bret Harte famous work
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat”
“A Lonely Ride”
“A Yellow Dog”
“The Luck of Roaring Camp”
“The Mermaid of Lighthouse Point”
Willa Cather famous work
“A Wagner Matinee”
O Pioneers!
wrote “Death of a Traveling Salesman”
Eudora Welty
wrote O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
wrote Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
wrote “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Flannery O Conner
setting of “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
the south, Alabama; 1950’s
Who is Mr. Shiftlet and what does he do?
he is a carpenter; he goes to Mrs. Crater to fix her house/fence in exchange for a place to sleep and food; he fixes the car and ends up marrying Mrs. Crater’s daughter but leaves her will traveling on their honeymoon
A Worn Path basics
- setting is December 1930’s in Natchez MS
- story involves an elderly woman who periodically goes along a worn path to the city
- on her journey she exhibits humor, determination, courage, resourcefulness, and unselfishness
- Phoenix is a mythical Egyptian bird that never dies. It rises from its own ashes after consuming itself in flames
- her character is revealed to the reader through her words and actions
- the first paragraph focuses on Phoenix’s age
Name New England authors
Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Name Southern authors
Harper Lee, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O Connor, Eudora Welty
Name Western authors
Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Bret Harte, Willa Cather
Great Plains author
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Great Plains author
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Bret Harte style
he is considered a local color writing
his setting and plot often center around the story’s mining camps and towns
his characters were often eccentric
his plots were considered by most to be most whimsical
Common regionalism characters
- tend to be of the district or region rather than the individual; characters may become character types; sometimes quaint or stereotypical
- are marked by their adherence to the old ways by dialect and personality traits particular to the region
What did Bret Harte invent?
Stereotypical western character
3 Bret Harte characters
John Oakhurst: the protagonist, professional gambler, believes in luck and fate
The Duchess: forced out of poker flat, treats piney woods with great care, dies holding her
Mother Shipton:
prostitute forced out of poker flat, Starves to death to make sure that piney woods doesn’t
