Reading and Discussion Questions

The following links lead to reading and discussion questions on various works.

   
Chopin, Kate "The Story of an Hour"
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg "The Portable Phonograph"
Crane, Stephen "The Blue Hotel"
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Blithedale Romance
  Brief questions on "Rappaccini's Daughter, "The Celestial Railroad," and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
   
Hemingway, Ernest "Soldier's Home"
Howells, W. D. "Editha"
  The Rise of Silas Lapham
Jackson, Shirley "The Lottery"
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady, Book I
  "Daisy Miller"
Melville, Herman Moby-Dick
  "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
   
Moore, Laurie "How to Become a Writer"
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Steinbeck, John "The Chrysanthemums"
Twain, Mark General questions on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
   
Wharton, Edith (note: for other reading questions, go to the Edith Wharton Society site.) "The Other Two"
  "Roman Fever"
  The Custom of the Country