Abraham the King

Chapter One1. Explain the significance of the parrot and the mockingbird at the beginning of this chapter.2. why would Chopin have thought it important to include this detail in her outline mention of the childrens nurse?3. Why would Ponterllier consider his suntanned married woman to be a damaged piece of property?4. Who is Robert Lebrun?5. What is his relationship with Edna?Chapter Two1. find Edna Pontellier.2. What kind of person is Robert Lebrun?3. What shift in point of view is pellucid in Chapter Two?4. What do you learn about Robert and Edna from their conversation at the end of this chapter?Chapter Three1. How does Leonces behavior when he returns from the Klein Hotel reveal his attitude toward his wife?2. What is the number one sign that Edna is not completely happy with her life as it is?3. Discuss how sounds are used as a backdrop to the painting of disagreement between Leonce and Enda?4. How do the gifts Edna receives from her husband symbolize her marriage and clo se to marriages of this time?Chapter Four1. Describe the unusual nature of the relationship between Edna and her children.2. What is Chopin implying by this description They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to scratch out themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels. 3. Who is Adele Ratingnolle, and how is she the embodiment of the mother- woman?4. How does the event that Edna is not a Creole affect her relationship with others on kilobyte Isle?Chapter Five1. How does Roberts behavior toward Edna fit the pattern of Medieval and spiritual rebirth courtly love?2.What is the difference between Roberts present attentions to Edna and his knightly attentions to Adele Ratignolle?3. Compare Ednas sketching with Adeles sewing.4. To what tradition is Chopin referring when she has Edna compare Adele to a bloody shame?5. What is ironic about the simile?Chapter Six1. What is significant about Ednas first say ing she did not want to go swimming with Robert and then agreeing to go?2. How is the sea used symbolically in this chapter?Chapter Seven1. How are Edna Pontellier and Adele Ratignolle contrasted in this chapter?2. What does the channel to the beach symbolize in this chapter?3. What is the significance of the lady in slow and the two lovers in this chapter?4. What does the flashback to Ednas childhood reveal to the reader?5. What do you learn about Edna as a person, given the reasons for her marriage to Leonce?6. She grew accessible of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection,, thereby threatening its dissolution. How does the storytellers omniscience reveal Ednas feelings about marriage and intimate relationships?