Literature

TWO DIFFERENT STORIES, TWO DIFFERENT MARRIAGES Address one or more of the following questions in your answer:
--Can both stories be read a second or third time and still be interesting? Why or why not? What did you find appealing in each story? Was there anything in either story that did not appeal to you? Why? --What does marriage mean in each story? --How would you describe the theme--the central point and meaning—in each story?
"A Sorrowful Woman" to consider. Focusing on significant words or phrases in the passage, explain the meaning or significance of those words to this particular passage and/or the story as a whole. •Page 40: The woman now spent her winter afternoons in the big bedroom. She made a fire in the hearth and put on slacks and an old sweater she had loved at school, and sat in the big chair and stared out the window at snow-ridden branches, or went into long novels about other people moving through other winters