English, Answer the following questions.

• Reading Responses on the readings UPLOAD HERE. Find questions below. • MLM( MAKING LITERATURE MATTER, FIFTH EDITION): Susan

Glaspell, Trifles (1198-209) • MLM( MAKING LITERATURE MATTER, FIFTH EDITION): James Joyce,

“Eveline” (1556-9) Questions for Reading Responses: Trifles

1 What kinds of things are the women in the play preoccupied with, what about the men? Support your response with plenty of quotations.

2 What evidence can you find that the women sympathize with Mrs. Wright. Give quotations to support your answer.

3 Select two quotations that you found important as you were reading. Why, do you think, they stand out in the play?

"Eveline": 1 What are the reasons that make Eveline want to abandon her family? What

are the reasons that make her stay? Use plenty of quotations to support your answer.

2 Even though the story is delivered in the third-person, the reader often feels being inside Eveline's mind, being inside her consciousness. Can you identify passages that demonstrate this observation? Why do you think are they presented to the reader in such a way?

3 Critics commenting on "Eveline" emphasize its overall inertia and paralysis. Both the story and its main character are paralyzed. Do you agree with this view or not? Use plenty of quotations to support your answer.

4 Choose either "Eveline" or trifles for the next question:  Find one object that relates to the reading. Leave space to tape it in your responses after you print them or find a Google image and copy/paste it in your document. Write a three to four sentence paragraph explaining the object's importance to your reading of the text. Be creative. Move away from the obvious. (Look for objects even in your garbage!