DISCUSSION OF THE TEXT
1. What is the setting of the story? What effect upon the reader is created by all the introductory information given in one sentence?
2. How are the feelings of Mrs. Mallard about her husband’s death described?
3. What is the author driving at by contrasting the description of spring given further with the grief news Mrs. Mallard learnt?
4. How does the description of the spring contribute to the understanding of the changes in her life after the tragic event?
5. What is there in the description of her feelings that creates suspense? Where does it reach its climax?
6. How are her relations with her husband brought home to the reader? How does she see her life now that he has died?
7. What is the function of defeated expectancy at the end of the story?
8. How can you interpret the title of the text in retrospect?
ELEGANCE (2003)
By Kathleen Tessaro
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