Due: at beginning of class on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 (hard copy to be handed in)
Welty, Poe ou Hemingway?
We have discussed “the narrator” of our stories beaucoup (a lot). Each of these three authors are known for their distinct narrative styles – Hemingway the exemplary minimalist Modernists, Welty a voice of the South (Southern Gothic), and Poe a master of the macabre and an American pioneer of the short story.
Choose one of the three authors and analyze their respective short story from our anthology, focusing on the narration of the story.
Following are some questions you may use to inspire your response. You DO NOT have to answer them all:
1) What are you told, or not told, by the narrator, and what effect(s) does this have on your reading of the story?
2) How would you describe the narrator as a character? Are they part of the story, at a distance, or are they a big part of the story? What lines help give you their character, and what may the purpose of this type of narration be?
3) Language. How does the narrator’s language shape the world in the story? What may the reader be meant to take away from this world, from how the story is narrated?
Guidelines: 12pt, Times New Roman (Cambria is okay); 1-2 pages double-spaced.
Really work on 1) having a thesis/focused point and develop that one idea, and 2) explain/interpret your quoted lines, don’t allow them to speak for themselves…
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