English 103 - "Araby" and "Miss Brill"

How do tragedies end compared to comedies? Modernist stories?

How did the Author of "Araby" describe Dublin?

When the main character describes his friends sister, what can we tell about what she is like and how he sees her.

How do his ideas about faith and how he sees the sister mix together?

What do we know about the boys imagination?

when he talks to the sister about going to the bazaar, how does he describe her here?

When the boy goesto the bazaar, he overhears a conversation between a young women and two men. Why does this conversation effect him?

What is significant about the lights going out in the bazaar?

How is the narrating different in "Miss Brill"?

What can we tell about the characters feelings and relationships?

How does miss Brill see herself? How does she interpret her part in life?

How is miss Brill similar to the fox fur? What does the fur represent?

How are the two stories similar?

what is the boys school called?

who was the original tenant of the boys house? what happened to him?

what does the boy do every morning?

when he goes to market with his aunt, what does he imagine himself to be?

he went into the empty drawing room one night. what did he do there?

what is araby?

the girl spoke to him at last. what did they talk about?

he asks his uncle if he can go to the bazaar that Saturday. What happens?

how does he get to the bazaar?

does he buy the girl something? what happens?

how does Miss Brill start?

who are the first people she sees? what did she hope for?

she talks about last Sunday? who did she see then?

she describes all the people on benches. what are they like?