Comment on two of the following questions. One from chapter 9 and one from the epilogue.
1) At the bottom of page 81 to the top of page 82, the text says, “Now these and all other tokens of her presence had vanished, and the room looked as bare and comfortless as when Zeena had shown her it on the day of her arrival.” What tone does this passage send? How does this passage connect to ideas from throughout the text?
2) Chapter 9 describes “unreality” and “illusion”. Throughout the text and Chapter 9, what has been an illusion versus reality for Frome, Zeena, and Mattie?
3) “They had reached the crest of the Corbury Road, and between the indistinct white glimmer of the church and the black curtain of the Varnum spruces…” (88). In analyzing the imagery of this passage, what does “Corbury Road” represent? The “white glimmer of the church”? “The black curtain”?
4) The epilogue brings the story back to the present with the narrator. In the second and third paragraphs the narrator describes two different women. To whom is he referring in paragraph 2? Paragraph 3? What is the irony of this situation?
5) “…And I say, if she’d ha’ died, Ethan might ha’ lived; and the way they are now, I don’t see’s there’s much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard…” (98). What is meant by the first and second parts to this passage?
Respond and expand on at least one of your classmates' comments.
1) At the bottom of page 81 to the top of page 82, the text says, “Now these and all other tokens of her presence had vanished, and the room looked as bare and comfortless as when Zeena had shown her it on the day of her arrival.” What tone does this passage send? How does this passage connect to ideas from throughout the text?
2) Chapter 9 describes “unreality” and “illusion”. Throughout the text and Chapter 9, what has been an illusion versus reality for Frome, Zeena, and Mattie?
3) “They had reached the crest of the Corbury Road, and between the indistinct white glimmer of the church and the black curtain of the Varnum spruces…” (88). In analyzing the imagery of this passage, what does “Corbury Road” represent? The “white glimmer of the church”? “The black curtain”?
4) The epilogue brings the story back to the present with the narrator. In the second and third paragraphs the narrator describes two different women. To whom is he referring in paragraph 2? Paragraph 3? What is the irony of this situation?
5) “…And I say, if she’d ha’ died, Ethan might ha’ lived; and the way they are now, I don’t see’s there’s much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard…” (98). What is meant by the first and second parts to this passage?
Respond and expand on at least one of your classmates' comments.