LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Jim thinks she’s ugly
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Jim is engaged
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her mother won’t leave them alone
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Jim breaks her glass animals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Even though Jim seems to the audience a rather ordinary young man, to Laura he is quite exceptional, and he has achieved his aim of bringing Laura somewhat out of her world of retreat. After Jim makes his awkward confession about his engagement to Betty, Laura gives him the broken unicorn.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jim is Tom’s friend and was in the same school as Laura, he is engaged and when he tells this to Laura on their first meeting after school, she is heartbroken because she loved him. The story ends in disharmony when Tom finally decides to abandon his family obligations and never to return (Bradford 1-2).
Detailed explanation-3: -When Amanda hears about Jim’s engagement, what does she think? She is unable to accept what is real. What does Amanda’s refusal to let Tom call Laura “crippled” reveal about her?
Detailed explanation-4: -Extremely apologetic, Jim tells her that she is different from anyone else he knows, that she is pretty, and that if she were his sister he would teach her to have some self-confidence and value her own uniqueness. He then says that someone ought to kiss her.