Where Are You Going...

We will be spending a full week on this short story, discussing it from many different angles and using critical material about the text as an aid to understanding. Our work will culminate in an in-class essay about the short story. The essay will be open book, but you will not know the question before hand. In order to write an extensive and reasoned interpretation of the story, you should begin by making extensive annotations for the story and by writing out such things as character traits, plot outlines, symbols, setting, and meditations on style and tone.

For this Monday's class, lets begin by talking about what themes we see Oates developing in the story.