How does your response to Nee develop over the course of the story? Is she a dynamic or static character? Explain. 2. Explain how Nee and Soured serve as character foils to each other. 3.
Discuss whether you think Duke Is a flat or round character.Provide examples from the story to support your view. 4. What is the effect of the story's being told from Ana's perspective? How might the story be different if it were told from the mother's point of view? 5. Do you think Mr.
. Achy Is a good or bad husband? Explain why you think that way. 6. How does the information about Nee and Gourd's trip through the minefield affect your understanding of Means relationship with her sister? 7. Comment on the title.
Why wouldn't an alternative like "Nee the Troublemaker" be appropriate? Bartlett, the Scrivener A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville (Page 135) 1.How does the lawyer's description of himself serve to characterize him? Why Is it gallants that he Is a lawyer and not another profession? 2. Why do you think Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut are introduced before Bartlett? 3. How is Barterers physical description a foreshadowing of what happens to him? 4. How does Barley's "l would prefer not to" affect the routine of the lawyer and his employees? 5.
Who Is the protagonist of this story? 6. Does the lawyer change during the story? Does Bartlett? Who is the story antagonist? Why? 7.Do you think Melville sympathizes more with Bartlett or with the lawyer? Why? 8. Discuss the story's humor and how it affects your response to Bartlett. Bagley by A.
S. Batty (Page 163) 1 . Explain whether you think Daphne Culver-Robinson is a sympathetic character. 2. What is the conflict? Is it resolved? Why or why not? 3. Can Lady Crops, Roll, and the policeman be accurately labeled as stock characters? Tell why you think they can or can't be.
4. How do your feelings about Daphne develop over the course of the story? 5. Why do you suppose Batty names the shopping center the Good Fortune Mall?
