SETTING

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 385.

PLOT STRUCTURE

ANALYSIS

СOMPREHENSION

GLOSSARY

tortoise stove

to drift into

jersey

wharf

close-cropped hair

a pouting mouth

heart is wrung at

to turn crimson

to give an eye to

to summon

enchanting

to rouse

fishy

to overlook sth

forlorn

beyond words

to ladle out

tit-bits

to loll

frills

awning

to scuttle

as neat as a pin

a ‘still life'

crinkly paper

to slav at

to exceed the amount

prunes

stones

languid

dusky

fasten the shutters

tucked away some wisps of hair

clatter of dishes

to knock a mop against (the ledge)

to unbraid one's hair

to take in (sewing)

to have a violent temper

to tuck one's feet (under)

to talk in low tones

composure

to dodge

to creep

1. Who is Ian French? What was peculiar about him?

2. Who were the women trying to take care of him? In what ways did they do it? What was the result?

3. What is said about Ian's studio and his way of life?

4. What were Ian's ideas of the girl's character and way of life.

5. What did he do to get acquainted with the girl?

1. Try to identify the traditional structural plot elements (exposition, complication, climax, denoument)

2. Find the flashbacks and comment on their role.

3. Is the ending of the story clear or ambiguous?

1. Find the following information in different parts of the story.

Season:______________

Time of day:______________

Weather conditions:______________

2. Where does the scene take place? What details of the setting reinforce the idea of

- youth

- poverty

- asceticism

- hard work

3. In what aspects is Ian's studio contrasted to the description of the ground floor of the house? What is the implication of the metaphor ‘perched up in the air'?

4. Pick out cases of direct speech: who are the speakers? What is the effect of not mentioning them? How does it add to the idea of Ian's loneliness?

5. What can we guess about the milieu of the story? In what aspects is the outer world contrasted to the main character? Explain what the narrator means by ‘Why come to Paris if you want to be a daisy in the field'?