short fiction

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in 250 words wirte a description of the character Mal Vester. construct the description in four paragraphs . each paragraph should address different aspect of the character. choose four aspects of the character that will integrate to provide a convincing sense of a full personality you will be marked on the distinct qualities of each paragraph and the integrated sense of a single character that comes through .write your 250 words over four paragraphs

the story is ” Dimmer” by Joy Williams

To answer these correctly you must not neglect the setting, time period, cast of characters, and action!

“Young Goodman Brown”
1. Hawthorne never explained, nor is it apparent from the story, whether Goodman Brown actually went out into the woods that night or whether he dreamt the entire thing. Make a case for both.

“The Overcoat”
2. Explain how the overcoat is used to delineate the bureaucratic culture of St. Petersburg Russia during that time. Is this story possible today? Why or why not? How are “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Overcoat” social commentaries?

“The Necklace”
3. Explain problem development in “The Necklace”. How was the initial problem compounded? What were the steps in Mrs. Loisel downfall and how could they have been avoided?

“The Yellow Wallpaper”
4. Explain this final scene. How did she get out and what did she get out of? Why does she have to continuously creep over her husband?
“What is the matter?” he cried.”For God’s sake, what are you doing?”
I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. “I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you… Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”

“The Storm”
5. How is the storm in Kate Chopin’s story a metaphor for, an opportunity, a family upheaval, a sex act, and social upheaval?

“The Open Boat”
6. If one theme in the “Open Boat” is that nature is too powerful to be conquered, what environmental message might be learned from the story and how does the following quote apply to that question?
“Canton flannel gulls flew near and far. Sometimes they sat down on the sea, near patches of brown sea-weed that rolled over the waves with a movement like carpets on line in a gale. The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingy, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland.”

“Araby”
7. Briefly narrate an experience in which you were disappointed. Show how your erroneous expectations were generated; then describe what you actually encountered in such a way that its contrast with your expectations is clear. Then relate your experience to the narrator’s experience in “Araby”.

“Miss Brill”
8. What does the reader know throughout the story that Miss Brill comes to understand near the end?

“Sweat”
9. Explain the function within the story of the secondary characters: white people, townsmen on porch, girlfriend of Sykes

“Flowering Judas”
10. Laura is isolated and alone, why does she reject the advances of Braggioni, the other suitors, the hypocrisy of the socialist revolutionaries who have come to power, and what evidence is there for Laura’s growing disenchantment with the revolutionary ideals?

“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
11. How would the two waiters have different understandings of the following quote? “What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too….Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.”

“Babylon Revisited”
12. Babylon was the capital of Babylonia, a city noted for materialism and luxury and the pursuit of sensual pleasure, wickedness, and hedonistic pleasures. What does that have to do with Charlie getting his daughter back?

“Barn Burning”
13. Explain the central conflict for Sarty and how that affects his relationship within the family.

“Sonny’s Blues”
14. Like “Barn Burning” this is of course a family drama. But both stories also contain political elements related to time and place. How would you say both stories are the result of the civil war? How does oppression dictate the lives of the people in both stories?

“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”
15. Briefly narrate an experience in which you were treated badly by strangers. First show how you felt out of place; second, describe what ,misconceptions the strangers seem to have about you. Third, relate your experience to the angel’s experience in “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.”

“Gimpel the Fool”
16. Reb had a chance to take revenge on the townspeople and get back at his wife, why didn’t he do it and how does that negate the title of the story?

“Patriotism”
17. What were the immediate and remote causes Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama death and why was it necessary for his wife to follow him to the grave?

“A Woman on a Roof”
18. Describe the different reactions the men had to the sunbathing woman. How did their reactions differ, and, did any of them change over the course of the story?

“Revelation”
19. What does Mrs. Turpin come to understand about herself by the end of the story, and, how does that change come about?

“A Company of Laughing Faces”
20. What change has occurred for Kathy over the course of the story, and, to what do you attribute that change?

“How I met my Husband”
21. Compare/contrast 15 year-old Edie and 17 year-old Kathy Hack. How do their differences and similarities convey the themes of the two stories?

“Separating”
22. How is the couple’s bungling attempts at informing their children of the impending separation emblematic of the reasons for the divorce in the first place?

“The Man to Send Rain Clouds”
23. How are the interactions between the Indians and the priest in the story representative of typical Indian/White relations in general over the course of history?

“Cathedral”
24. In the following quotes how is the narrator, (Bub), unknowingly speaking about something other than Robert and his wife? How do these quotes demonstrate the narrator’s blindness?
“They’d married, lived and worked together, slept together—had sex, sure—and then the blind man had to bury her. All this without his having ever seen what the goddamned woman looked like. It was beyond my understanding….Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one. A woman who could go on day after day and never receives the smallest compliment from her beloved.”