英语泛读(三)课后答案

1. THE EGG

1) What is meant by the comment. ''most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms'' are we take it seriously ?

On the chicken farm, people usually have a lot of grotesque，sophisticated ideas and problems which are most fit for philosophers to cope with. So the writer made such a comment．But however, we don't take it seriously.

2) The scene in which the narrator's father and Jane appear together one night obviously is the main scene in the story．What is Joe kane's reachtion to the

father's tricks and his grotesque chickens in alcohol ? Why does the father fail

to realize the absurdity and unsuccessfulness of his enterainment?

Jos Kene thought the father's tricks are grotesque and hideous. He feels ill at look of those deformed chickens in alcohol. Because the father is trapped in the American passion for success．He tried to be a normrous Doss, and made his restaurant famous so that more customers would come and then he would make a lot

of money. The father clung to his grotesque truth and got so feverish in trying

to be a success that he because narrow-minded and deformed in behavior and thereby he didn't realized the absurdity and unsuccessfulness of his entertainment.

3) What does the egg symbolize?

The egg is a symbol for unfulfilled hopes and promises. The egg hinted

American dreams to be‘ in a passion for success, by which people a r e convinced that everybody should be ambitious, through one's efforts one can rise in the world

even from humble origin and prowerty.

4) Twice the narrator mentions the detail that when his angry father enters the bedroom with another egg in his hand，instead of destorying it，he lays it gently on the cable．why?

Because the egg is Father's hope，his hope for making fortune and success

hasn't been shattered completely. He still has to go on running his restaurant and serve the customers. with the egg.

2. HOLIDAY

1) What Kind of family is the Mullers?

The mullers is a practical, hard-beaten but warm-hearted and hospitable．There

is a respectful and affectionate relationship among the family. They work hard all their lives. They confront troubles and grieves with great courage.

2) Why does the narrator seem disappointed at first, but shortly after her arrival at the Mullers' fell that she is ''going to like it here''

Along the road to the Mullers', what she finds is that desolate, bleak，shapeless, scene which is not in the least the ''paradise'' Louise described to her before, and which is unfit for to spend her holiday．

Because of the simplicity, warmness and hospitality of the Mullers and sedate surroundings full of promises of spring and free or troubles and pressures. She feels homely

3) Ottilie is at first a mysterious, tragic nobody. Do you agree with the family's attitude towards her? why does the family treat her like that? Why does the

narrator conclude ''there was nothing I could do for Ottlie...she was beyond my reach as well as nay other human reach...''?

I n the Mullers' view, nothing is to be gained only by feeling sorry. There are

no provisions for coaling invalids．One must work heroically to heal the hurts

that can be healed. They are born equally the puppets of life. the narrator's are nothing before Ottilie's agony and misfortune．What is more , Ottilie lives and confronts them more heroiocally, more strenuously heroiocally, more strenuously 4)Why is the afternoon ''lively'' and ''feature'' for both Ottilie and narrator? Although Ottilie and the narrator are suffering a lot in their lives. they are lucky to be fugitives from death. so that they have a little stolen holiday. a breath of spring air and freedom