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Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1985A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics.
Essay Topics
1.
How does light and its absence function within the story?
2.
What do the “two mutts” outside the house signify? Why does the husband decide not to “heave rocks at them,” as he usually does?
3.
Why do we know the wife’s name, but not the husbands? What does this add to her character or the story? Why does the narration refuse to name either character?
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