Short Story’s

Question 1

Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Answer 1

“I love jewels” - ignorance of bourgeoisie class and their ostentatious nature

• “fearsome eyes of the 12 men of fish “ parallel to ‘ash grey men’ in the valley of ashes
• Due to their class they were able to ‘tinker with the maps’- reflection of prohibition and Gatsby getting away with prohibition
• Braddocks bribe was refused - Deus Abscondi
• John says “everybody’s youth is a dream” Fitzgerald suggests the a.d is something juvenile

Question 2

Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin

Answer 2

1894 - pre women’s vote
“Brief moment of illumination “
Realises she’s “free free free” and able to “live for herself” from the oppressive nature of marriage
- Daisy chooses not to do this
Dies of a “ joy that kills “ social realist novel = everyone’s dream is destroyed or punished in some way

Question 3

The Killers

Answer 3

Lost generation
Simplistic and satirical
- shows not action or climax - Hemingway distancing himself
“He must of got mixed up with something gin Chicago” - he fled due to danger
Ending - “ you better not think about it” - chooses not to display brutal racism like Faulkner instead is disillusioned and withdrawn
Has empty disatisfying ending

Question 4

Big Boy Leaves Home -1938

Answer 4

Post civil war 
- exclamatory sentences thoughout 
- Richard Wright -  naturalistic in style - portrays brutal racism - Lynching 
Ignorance of the superior races 
“You go away” repeated 3 times 
- marginalisation

Question 5

A Rose for Emily - set in South

Answer 5

William Faulkner
- non linear
Modernist
Isolation and seclusion from rest of society /community
Shows southern town torn between present and past
- Emily portrays the struggle in trying to maintain tradition in the face of radical change
“The past is never dead” links to muley struggling to adapt to the shift to modernity and in grapes “ how will we know it’s us without our past ?” We

Question 6

A Farewell to Arms 1929

Answer 6

Modernist
Lost Generation
“Why darling I don’t live at all when I’m not with you”
Both Gatsby and this book end Empty and unfulfilled
And end walks in rain - symbol of loss of hope
About wine - “it makes you forget all the bad”
Prohibition