Gender Readings. Top Ten. Ренц Т.Г - 11 стр.

judgments we make as we move toward an understanding of the story
— toward some ways of seeing and thinking about it.
      When we move through a text we look forward and backward at
the same time: we antici pate what is to come based on our memory
of what has gone before. And even though we may read stories line by
line, sentence by sentence, page by page, this linearity belies what
happens mentally as we read. Our mental action is cyclical rather
than linear. We project ahead and we glance back; we remember and
we predict. By doing so, we are able to follow and understand a story in
the first place, and to see more in it on subsequent readings.

A. Answer these questions:
      1. What personal and social values influence your reading of
the story?
      2. What values animate Mrs. Mallard’s behaviour and feelings?
      3. What values underlie her husband’s treatment of her?
      4. To what extent do their values reflect or depart from society’s
values at the time the story was written?
      5. To what extent do their values reflect or depart from today’s
cultural values?
      6. And how are any or all of these values measured against
your own?
B. Define the contextual meaning of these lexical units relying on an
English-English dictionary:
     to be affected with, to forestall, abandonment, roomy, tumultu-
ously, exalted, admission.
C. Points to consider:
     While reading the story think about the following:
     a) the relations between the spouses;
     b) the way in which nature partici pates in the story.
D. Choose the correct answer:
     1. Veiled hints:
        a) direct, transparent;
        b) hidden, opaque.
     2. To haunt one’s body:
        a) to follow;
        b) to influence.
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