Short Story questions Flashcards
In Atwood’s Happy Endings, what is her view on Life?
The real connoisseurs pay attention to the part between the beginning and the end.
In Atwood’s Happy Endings, how does she feel about option A?
Option A is boring and lacks a life being lived
Discuss the format of Atwood’s Happy Ending, what is the point of options, or what do they represent?
There are options because their are choices in life, and those choices have consequences
In Alice Walker’s The Flowers, which of the following do the flowers represent?
All the above (Reverence for the dead, Loss of innocence, Life can come from death)
What imagery is used to tell us that something awful took place in The Flowers?
All of these (The rope still hanging on the tree after all this time, The feeling of something wrong in the woods, The smiling teeth from the skull next to the body)
In the story The Flowers, how is the main character Myop connected to the dead man?
They both have the same color of skin
In the Barbie Birthday, what does the Barbie doll represent to the little girl and why did she want it so badly?
Answers to difficult questions
In the Barbie Birthday, what trauma did the child go through to show her loss of innocence?
Her mother died of Breast Cancer after a long fight
With the absence of her mother, what could the little girl in Barbie Birthday fall victim to in the story?
Consumerism and its ideals of what a woman should be
Where did the story Girl take place?
In the south, New Orleans area
Other than womanhood, what is the mother in the story Girl training her daughter to be?
A southern Lady
What is the story Blind Date about?
Regret
In what ways are a lot of people today connected to the story of Blind Date?
Anxiety, anguishing over choices
In I stand Here Ironing, what emotion can be felt by the narrator?
regret
In the story I Stand Here Ironing, what was one of the narrators biggest concerns about her daughter?
All of these concerns (Her weight and lack of eating, The lack of warmth and love shown to her daughter , The lack of joy her daughter expresses)
What message is the narrator giving the reader about her parenting of her daughter?
Her daughter is strong now due to the lack of parenting
In the story, I Stand Here Ironing, what type of conflict do we see in the narrator?
Internal
Which of the following is not part of the Aristotelean story telling method?
Theme
Which of the following does not define a Theme in Literature?
A plot summary
In the story of an hour, how was Brently Mallard allegedly killed?
Train accident
After the initial shock of the news of her husband’s demise, what feeling came to Mrs. Mallard?
Freedom
Based off of the evidence in the story, how did Brently Mallard treat his wife?
Showed her nothing but love
In the Jilting of Granny Weatherall, what is comical about her threatening to spank Cornelia?
Cornelia is her 60 year old daughter
What changed Granny Weatherall?
Having to raise the kids and run the farm (hard labor)
Granny Weatherall was jilted the first time when her fiancé left her at the altar, what jilted her at the end of the story?
God didn’t give her a sign it would be okay and she felt abandoned
