Some possible ideas to get you started:
- How do dreams, dream-worlds and/or non-reality shape the meanings of two of the texts we have read? How do authors balance, intermix or confuse appearance and reality? Are the
meanings produced different, overlapping converging? All of the above?
- How are domestic and familial spaces represented in these texts? What is their role as the backdrop/context for the events and meanings of the story? What role does marriage or
relationship play? What about age? Is there any difference between public and private space that you can see in these texts? Can you note any key differences or similarities?
- How are gender and class portrayed in these texts, what about race? What arguments might these texts be making about the societies they present?
- What is the role of the surprise/unexpected in these texts? How does an unexpected event, surprise, or disaster shape the meaning of the text?
