This document provides 6 questions to guide discussion of a story's setting, characters, and themes. It asks how the story's atmosphere impacts interpretation, to describe the American couple and wife's relationship with the hotel owner, and to analyze what the cat represents for the wife and maid. It also questions whether the wife's problems are solved at the end and asks what conflicts are present in the story.
This document provides 6 questions to guide discussion of a story's setting, characters, and themes. It asks how the story's atmosphere impacts interpretation, to describe the American couple and wife's relationship with the hotel owner, and to analyze what the cat represents for the wife and maid. It also questions whether the wife's problems are solved at the end and asks what conflicts are present in the story.
This document provides 6 questions to guide discussion of a story's setting, characters, and themes. It asks how the story's atmosphere impacts interpretation, to describe the American couple and wife's relationship with the hotel owner, and to analyze what the cat represents for the wife and maid. It also questions whether the wife's problems are solved at the end and asks what conflicts are present in the story.
1. Which significance has the setting (atmosphere) for the interpretation of
the story? 2. Describe the American couple and their relationship to each other. 3. Describe the relationship between the American wife and the hotel owner. 4. What does the cat mean to the American wife and to the Italian maid? What does the “cat” stand for? 5. Do you think that at the end of the story the wife's problems are solved? 6. Tell some conflicts in the story?