1
Q
“A Worn Path” - Eudora Welty
1. Why does Phoenix go on a quest?
2. What is the theme?
3. Why is Phoenix appropriately named?
A
- To get medicine for her grandson
- Love heals all.
- She falls and gets hurt over and over during the trip but she always gets back up.
2
Q
“Jilting of Granny Weatherall” - Katherine Anne Porter
1. What does Granny wish for George?
2. How is her death symbolized?
3. What are two ways granny is jilted?
A
- To see her children grow up.
- light going out
- George leaves her at the alter, and God never responds to her prayers.
3
Q
“Where is Here?” - Joyce Carol Oates
1. How does Oates build suspense?
2. Who might the stranger be?
3. What aspects are left ambiguous?
A
- Building an eerie setting, and by relating the man to a past life in the house.
- A dead boy that used to live there.
- His childhood/ who he is.
4
Q
“Life you save may be your own” - Flannery O’Connor
1. Grotesque Characters?
2. How are the mother and Shiftlet similar?
3. Examples of irony?
A
- Lucynell (D) and Shiftlet because there are forgivable parts of there characters however they aren’t completely innocent.
- Both do whatever they have to in order to get what they want.
- Shiftlet looks out for hitchhikers but leaves Lucynell in the diner.
