In "The Glass Menagerie," who is the character Laura based after?
Tennessee Williams' sister Rose
What are the two themes that Tennessee Williams writes about?
escape and isolation
What do the apartments symbolize in "The Glass Menagerie?
capitalism
When Tom steps out on the fire escape, what does that symbolize?
taking a step to escape
Why did the lights go out? What did Tom spend the money on?
his merchant marine license
The father in "The Glass Menagerie"
is smiling in the photo because ?
he is the only one who escaped
What is the only thing their father says in "The Glass Menagerie" when he sends them a postcard?
hello, goodbye
Laura's favorite animal piece of glass?
a unicorn
How does the unicorn get broken?
The horn comes off (Jim)
Why does Laura give Jim the broken unicorn, now horse?
Because a horse is ordinary like him
What is the line from "The Glass Menagerie" which is engraved on Laura's tombstone?
Blow your candles out Laura
What musical play did Jim take part in?
Pirates of pensance
What does Amanda (mother) find out about Laura?
she is not going to business school
Why does Laura not go back to business school?
she threw up on the first day
Amanda doesn't want Laura to become what stereotype?
the crazy aunt in the attic
What does Jim call Laura?
blue roses
The image that Tennessee Williams wants displayed on the screens of a man at the door with flowers is supposed to represent what?
salvation
Where does Tom work?
shoe factory
The bell in the tower that Tom hears represents what?
God
What does Tom give Laura?
a magic scarf
What song does Tom hear when he goes out for a smoke on the fire escape?
All theworld is waiting for the sunrise
What does Tom see when he glances into the mirror?
he sees that he, himself is peculiar
What's the reason that the other men at the warehouse accept Tom?
Jim accepts Tom
Why was Tom fired?
Writing a poem on the lid of a shoebox
What is the name of the Spanish town with the revolution and civil war that Tom refers to when he's taking about the times leading up to WWII?
Guernica
As emphasized in lecture, how is Amanda described in the character description in "The Glass Menagerie"?
as a woman of great but confused vitality
In Tom's first speech in The Glass Menagerie, he says that he is the opposite of something, that something is?
a stage magician
What is it that we're told Tom's father did for a living?
a telephone man
What element of The Glass Menagerie could be considered absurdist according to lecture?
the projection of images on screen and the use of semi-transparent curtains
Where is Clay from in the Dutchman?
New Jersey
What fruit, besides apples, does Lula pull out of her bag?
an orange
What are the posters on the walls of the train car?
devil lay's chips and dutch masters cigars
How many times does Lula stab Clay in the MOVIE?
once
How many times does Lula stab Clay in the SCRIPT?
twice
What movement was Amiri Baraka associated with?
black nationalism, nation of islam
What does the train, or flying dutchman, represent?
american society
or
prison/hell
Lula eating the apples represents what?
temptation, misogynism, and sexuality as power
Clay's name suggests that he is:
moldable
The passengers, as well as the conductor, are what?
complicit
In the text of the Dutchman, Lula waits for her victim to do what?
acknowledge her
Lula represents a:
dominant, oppressive culture
According to lecture, what does the house described at the beginning of "A Rose for Emily" represent
Miss Emily and the old south
What is the significance of who narrates Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"?
He represents the voice of the community
What "evidence" suggests that Miss Emily was sleeping with a corpse?
a grey hair on a pillow
What happens when Miss Emily's father dies?
She refuses to let them take the body away
What's the name of Miss Emily's boyfriend?
Homer
Who does Faulkner seem to be suggesting for Miss Emily's crime (other than Miss Emily)?
townspeople
Who probably moved Miss Emily's body to the moldy bed downstairs?
her servant
Why does Emily kill her husband?
She doesn't want him to leave her
What does Emily's House represent?
herself/what she has become
Who is the narrator in a rose for emily?
a towns person
What type of stories does Faulkner write?
Southern Gothic
What is Tobe's final act of loyalty in "a rose for emily?'
moving her body and opening the door for the town
What are some of the themes in "a rose for emily?
gentility, racial division, gender racism
What did the former mayor of the town promise Miss Emily in "a rose for emily?
that she didn't have to pay her taxes
Emily's house is surrounded by:
garages and cotton gins
Mrs. Emily taught:
china painting
What has the invisible man put on all the walls?
lightbulbs
What causes the invisible man to hide in the cold cellar?
Escape a riot
What is the message in the speech given by Ellison's Invisible Man
gradualism
Who else is humiliated along with the fighters and the Invisible Man in "Battle Royal"?
A white stripper
What does the Invisible Man want to get out of life?
to join the power structure
What is written on the note in the briefcase in the Invisible Man's dream?
Keep this N*gger boy running.
What is the message in the "bucket" image in the speech given by the Invisible Man?
Be satisfied with what you have
From whom does the Invisible Man get the ideas in his speech?
Booker T. Washington
The deathbed advice that the Invisible Man's grandfather gives him amounts to:
Subversion
What does he put in white paint to make it brighter?
black paint
What do the gold coins the boy must scramble for at the battle royal turn out to be?
worthless brass tokens
what is the award the young man is given in battle royal?
a briefcase with a scholarship
john steinback wrote about what?
social injustice
When John Steinbeck write that "fog and rain do not go together," this probably means which of the following?
Elisa will not get the rebirth/renewal she wants
What does Elisa seem to envy most about the tinker's lifestyle?
His freedom to travel
In Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums", what do the flowers themselves represent?
Elisa's abilities
The first image of Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" suggest....
Elisa's confinement
What is Elisa doing at the very end of "The Chrysanthemums"?
Crying like an old woman
Bathing, as in "The Chrysanthemums", is often symbolic of:
Cleansing and renewal
What does Elisa do in Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" that suggests an almost sexual attraction towards what the tinker represents?
She reaches towards his pants
In Walker's "Everyday Use", what does mother call Dee's companion?
Hakimabarber
In Walker's "Everyday Use", why does Dee object to her sister having the quilts?
she would use them
According to lecture, what do the quilts seem to represent in Walker's "Everyday Use"?
family heritage
According to lecture, who is possibly responsible for burning down the house in "Everyday Use"?
dee
In Everyday Use what does Dee want to be called?
wangero
How is Ellison's "Invisible Man" a Bildungsroman?
He comes to realize he can never win
What shocking thing does one of the soldiers in O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" carry?
a human thumb
How does Ted Lavender die in O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"?
while peeing
According to lecture, "The Things They Carried" is
bildungsroman and naturalistic
Who carried the Bible in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"?
kiowa
In "The Things They Carried", what does the Lieutenant carry?
a pebble, a bundle of letters
What does Tim O'Brien seem to suggest is the reason men act heroically?
shame
What does Tim O'Brien say is a soldier's greatest fear?
blushing
What is the heaviest thing they carried?
Psychic wounds
What happened to an innocent bystander in "The Videotape"?
Innocent until she gets dragged into this situation
Which of Hemingway's relatives also committed suicide?
all of the above
What state did Hemingway kill himself?
Idaho
Where does Hemingway's boat 'Pilar' reside?
Cuba
How did Hemingway's mother dress him for the first 3 years of his life?
like a girl
What contributed to Hemingway's mental problems?
head injury from a plane crash