When we first meet Elisa Allen in her garden, with what details does Steinbeck delineate her character for us?
What will be an ideal response?
- Elisa is a complex study in frustration. She is a strong, intense woman with far more energy than she can put to use: we learn at the outset that “even her work with the scissors was over-eager, over-powerful” (par. 6). It is clear that she is a careful housekeeper from the details about her home, a “neat white farm house with red geraniums close-banked around it as high as the windows,” a house that looks “hard-swept” and possesses “hard-polished windows” (par. 7). (You might ask your students if this description of the house parallels Elisa Allen.) She is only thirty-five years old, with a face described as “lean and strong” with eyes “as clear as water.” The detailed description of her unflattering gardening clothes hides the femininity of the woman within—“clodhopper shoes,” “big corduroy apron,” “heavy leather gloves” (par. 5). But the narrator tells us her face is “eager and mature and handsome” (par. 6).
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The blinding force of the rain caused the pilot _______________. He had trouble
landing and nearly crashed. Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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Tengo que usar el GPS, porque no __________ bien esa zona.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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What features are necessary for an individual to plan for their life?
a) availability of resources b) balance of effort and rewards c) absence of arbitrary interference d) all of the above
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