The Furnished Room-Stories of Ourselves Volume 2

Question 1

Summary

Answer 1

A man looking for his love.His love left him and went to live in the city.The girl killed her self in the room with gas. The man came to the same room and he also killed him self with gas without knowing the girl killed her self.

Question 2

Themes

Answer 2

Love and determination

Hopelessness

Question 3

Mood

Answer 3

Connection
Desperation
Love
Honesty

Question 4

Morals

Answer 4

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Question 5

Character Analysis

Answer 5

Mrs.Purdy: Right off the bat, Mrs. Purdy is shown to be a gross beefy blob of flesh. She either looked ravenous or she was again, just too disgustingly fat. The young man may as well have seen her as a huge slimy slobbering monster, with the way he described her. Her voice had some measure of femininity but not in an attractive melodious manner.

Eloise Vashner: She was the love interest of the protagonist in the story. She was a beautiful girl, petite in height and waist, with red-gold ringlets for hair. A small mole growing near her left eye was the only flaw to her face. She had a melodious singing voice and for some time sung in theatres.

Mrs.Maccool: Mrs. McCool was a co-worker of Mrs. Purdy. She must have been an oldie, around Mrs. Purdy’s age. She was old but she could butter up a person better than a chef could butter bread. She would do and say all things to please her coworker, Mrs. Purdy, so she could remain in her good graces.

Question 6

Literary Devices

Answer 6

Simile and metaphor
Third person point of view
Setting New York West Side

Question 7

Useful Quotes

Answer 7

The girl and the man died because of the same thing they poisoned there self with the gas in the room.
The lady didn’t want to tell the boy that the girl died here because she thought that she would be alone for her rest of her life.