It is interesting that the story contains no descriptions of Chris Watters’spersonal appearance. Why not, do you think? What are the things about him that really matter to Edie?
What will be an ideal response?
- The important thing for students to realize is that we see Chris Watters through Edie’s eyes. What she sees is not so much his looks (interestingly, when she first sees him at the screen door, she can barely make out what he looks like) but his glamour and sophistication, and most of all his apparent interest in her. When she first meets him, Watters seems poised and charming. He flirts with her so suavely that at first she does not understand he is flirting. Nonetheless, she is affected by his compliments. (“I wasn’t even old enough then to realize how out of the common it is, for a man to say something like that to a woman . . . for a man to say a word like beautiful.”) She begins to fall in love with him without at first admitting it openly in her narrative, and she observes him with the obsessive attentiveness that characterizes sexual attraction. When his unglamorous fiancée, Alice Kelling, arrives, Edie does not waver in her affection. Observing Watters and his fiancée together, she senses that he has little attraction left for the woman. Her infatuation with Watters leads her (and probably the reader) to excuse the lapses in his character. Edie is utterly sympathetic to his flight (in both senses of the word) from the apparently unsuitable Alice Kelling. It is not until long after Watters has flown away, and Edie realizes that he is not going to write (and by implication, never going to see her again), that the reader begins to appreciate how untrustworthy he was. We actually know very little about Watters (except his exciting profession) beyond what Alice and Edie tell us, and both women have a vested interest in him.
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Listen carefully to the sentences. Then write the missing pronoun or the missing form of sein or haben in the blanks.
Write sentences to say if you do or do not have each of these things.
What will be an ideal response?
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).