Lesson Nine A Dill Pickle 现代大学英语电子课件book 3
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Critics praised her for
her capturing the essence of Chekhov's art for stories emphasizing atmosphere and actual life rather than exciting plot, and
man and the woman from their speech and behaviors?
Part 1 (1-12) – appreciation
decorated with sth peel an orange opposite
The bank is opposite the supermarket. (prep.) Answers are given on the opposite page. (adj.)
A Dill Pickle
Katherine Mansfield
I. Introduction to the author
Kaborn in Wellington, New Zealand, was an outstanding short story writer.
III. Structure of the text
Part 1 (1-12), coming across of the two people Part 2 (13-22), recalling of Kew Garden Part 3 (23-44), recalling of the trip to Russia Part 4 (45-52), recalling of the man’s childhood Part 5 (53-66), ending of the story
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• 你怎么称呼老师？
• 如果老师最后没有总结一节课的重点的难点，你 是否会认为老师的教学方法需要改进？
• 你所经历的课堂，是讲座式还是讨论式？ • 教师的教鞭
• “不怕太阳晒，也不怕那风雨狂，只怕先生骂我 笨，没有学问无颜见爹娘 ……”
• “太阳当空照，花儿对我笑，小鸟说早早早……”
for her “refreshing originality” and “sensitiveness to beauty”.
However, just as she won world fame, her health grew worse. She died of tuberculosis in 1923, when she was 35 years old.
raise the veil unbutton the collar loathe (infml. not used in progressive = detest)
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Representative
works:
Bliss and Other Stories (1920) 《布里斯和其他故事》 The Garden Party (1922) 《园会》
Queens College皇后学院
First founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou (亨 利六世的妻子玛格丽特安珠) and then, unusually, again in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville (爱德华四 世的妻子伊丽莎白· 伍德维尔) .The main College site sits astride the River Cam (剑河), the two halves joined across the river by the famous Mathematical Bridge (数学桥) - more correctly called The Wooden Bridge. King’s College 国王学院（三圣学院Trinity College）(founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 安东· 巴甫洛维奇· 契诃夫(1860～1904)
Three great masters of the short story form: Chekhov, Maupassant, and O. Henry He was largely responsible for the modern type of short story that depends for effect on mood and symbolism rather than on plot. His narratives, rather than having a climax and resolution, are a thematic arrangement of impressions and ideas. He concentrated on subtleties of characterization and interaction between characters rather than on plot and direct action.
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"Brilliant book!"
- Nick Donaldson, Bit Wrangler Extraordinaire!.
At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he did Physics instead.
3. to affect:
to do sth. that produces an effect or change in sb. or sth.
eg. This disease will not affect your brain. The war has deeply affected people’s daily life. *Compare: influence; effect
2. End up: to be in the end(in the stated place, condition, etc.)
To end up (as) e.g. He ended up as the CEO of the company. To end up in e.g. Wasteful people usually end up in debt. To end up doing sth. e.g. Somewhat to his surprise, his son ended up designing the whole car and putting it into production.
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Examples for the man’s egoism
(1) Although the woman obviously had a hard time in the past six years, he paid no attention to her plight, just talking about (boasting) himself and his travels. (2) The letter she sent him six years ago: He trivializes the letter, and by doing this, also trivializes their relationship. (3) He claimed that they are both egotistical and selfengrossed, but the fact is that it was he alone who has the problem.
3. He closed his eyes an instant, but opening them his face lit up as though he had struck a match in a dark room. (p. 2)
> When he remembered who I was, he suddenly looked very excited.
I. Introduction to the author
Katherine Mansfield(1888-1923) Pseudonym of Cathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Born in Wellington, New Zealand, daughter of a wealthy merchant and Banker Attended Queen’s College, London, from 1903-1906 A talented Cellist Married a George Bowden in 1909 but separated shortly after Begin to live with John Murry in 1912, but was only able to marry him till 1918 Philosophy of pessimism and disillusion after the WWI
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•/ descriptive technique often compared to that of Russian writer Anton Chekhov, / •objective, original and artistic, highly metaphorical renderings /descriptions /depicts of common everyday scenes. /
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themes • attempted to free herself from the domination of her bourgeois family and the expectations for women of her class. • women's lives and social hierarchies of class distinctions • many of her stories are somber and even dark in tone.
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infidelity
to musician husbands "sexually unbalanced and at times ... irresponsible." married musician George Bowden but pregnant by Trowell before marrying Bowden. suffered a miscarriage /contracted gonorrhea /died young of TB
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Won’t you smoke? 3
An invitation: Won’t you sit down? Won’t you come in? Won’t you have some coffee?
But she was thinking how well she remembered that trick of his—the trick of interrupting
Hollywood（好莱坞） -- American filmmaking industry（美国电影制片业,电影界）
10, Downing Street（唐宁街10号） – the residence and office of the British prime minister （英国首相官邸）
Apart from （Besides）these reasons, there is yet another factor.
A cloth: cloth is usually uncountable unless it refers to a piece of this material for special purpose such as a table cloth or a dish cloth.
of our spiritual life and the godly materialism （敬神的实利主义） of our acquisitive life.
Safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. Winston Churchill, referring to the development of nuclear arms, said, ‘ Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science.’
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III. Difficult sentences
1. I am still just as ignorant for all your telling me. (P13)
for all: in spite of all
haunt: (n.) This pub is one of my favorite haunts. This area is a haunt of criminals.
haunting (adj.): strange in a pleasant or sad way and remaining
in one’s thoughts: The haunting memory of her beautiful face …
1) What’s the theme of the text?
2) How to understand the text by using background knowledge
about the author?
3) How to learn to be able of following minute details of an article?
←→ altruistic 12. beyond words/ beyond one’s power 13. peel:
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Lesson 9 A Dill PickleCourse: Basic EnglishStudent level: SophomoreTextbook: Contemporary College English, Book 3, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Text: Lesson 9 A Dill PickleI. Teaching Aims:1. To make a clear understanding toward this short novel and know what is going on between the only two persons in it.2. To learn the special writing style the author used here, that is, although the man in the novel does most of the talking the story really focuses on Vera and how she views her former lover.3. Discuss people‘s attitude toward Love4. Learn to appreciate literary works: symbolismII. Main Contents and Time Distribution:1)Oral discussion (30 minutes)2)Main idea and detail information of the text (90 minutes)3)Sentence and Structures (45 minutes)4)Writing devices (60 minutes)5) Follow-up exercises (45 minutes)III. Main Focus and PointsOral practice; Text theme; presentation of different attitudes; writing technique---symbolismIV. Extensive Study:1)Symbolism seeking (Students are required to read the text again outside the classroom, and findthe symbolism and share them with other classmates)2)Read the article ―The Early Autumn‖, and get to know more about symbolism in the literaryworksV. Teaching Methods:1)Student-centered and task-based teaching methods2) Reflective study and autonomous learningVI. Reference:1) Websites about symbolism: 2) Teachers‘ bookVII. Further thinking:What‘s your idea about the following statement?The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.VIII．Teaching Procedure1. Task: The teacher‘s introduction about the authorPurpose: to let students get to know the author, her works and her writing style.Procedure:a. (Sts-T) Sts present the information they get about the authorb. (T→Sts) Teacher gives supplementary information about the author, her works and her writing style2. Task: The topic for discussionPurpose: To let students practice their listening and oral English and learn to present their ideas Procedure:a. Appreciate a song: Yesterdayb. (T→Sts) The teacher introduce the topic to studentsWhat are the most important things when you are in love with someone, or rather, when you want to marry him or her? And why?Possible answers: wealth, education background, family background, common interest, social status, friends circle, personalities / character, appearance, age…c.(S←→S) Students discuss the topic in pair-work wayd. (Sts→T) Students present their ideas about the topic3 Task: The symbolic meaning of the titlePurpose: To make students realize the symbolism of the title and get to know this writing technique Procedure:a. (T→Sts) Teacher‘s introduction: A dill pickleCucumber reserved in salty and spicy water with such ingredients as pepper, garlic, dill and vinegar. In Russia, it is eaten with hamburger as an appetizer.b. (T←→Sts) The symbolic meaning of the titleTeacher‘s guidance:Q1: How does a dill pickle taste?A dill pickle tastes sour, spicy, bitter and sweetQ2: When do people eat dill pickles?Q3: What does dill pickles stand for?c. (Sts→T) Possible answer to the symbolic meaning of the titleFrom the woman’s perspective:Pickle refers to the whole encounter of the woman. Vera's life is very dull. So the meeting serves as an appetizer just as a stone is thrown into the motionless water and stirs up various desires to break the dull life of Vera.On the whole, a dill pickle appeals to you with attractive colors: greenish jar, red chili. But once you open the jar, one is enough and you won't finish the whole jar, which implies that the meeting will not bring Vera full satisfaction. In the text, Vera is looking forward to the meeting with the man, but it turns out to be no satisfaction at all.From the man’s point of view:In his life, Vera is just an appetizer, not a main course, meaning she is not a person that the man would like to spend the whole life with. She only makes his dull life a little colorful.4 Task: Text appreciation – A Dill PicklePurpose: To analyze and understand the details of the textProcedure:a. (T→Sts) Teacher lists basic elements to analyze the storyb. (Sts←→T) Students r ead through the story, and present the information about the story: Setting of the story: in a restaurantProtagonists: Vera and her ex-lover (his name was never told)Plot of the story: a young woman and a young man who had been lovers once met again after six years of separation. They sat and reminiscedGreat changes between the two protagonists after six years:Vera The manAppearanceSocial statusFinancial conditionsMannersCharacter5 Task: Language study---Reflective Verb and Reflective PronounPurpose: To study how to use Reflective Verb and Reflective Pronoun correctlyProcedure: (T-Sts)Reflective VerbYou are forgetting yourself.I feel myself overwhelmed with sadness.Reflective Pronoun a. predicate objectHe absented himself from class to watch a football game.b. prepositional objectI have the room to myself.All this is between ourselves.c. predicative: be + reflective pronoun (身心健康)I am glad that you are yourself again.d. appositive：自己，亲自，本人They themselves are to blame. (They are to blame themselves.)6 Task: Extension---oral and writing practicePurpose: To cultivate the students‘ critical literary appreciation abilityProcedure:a. Dramatize the whole story, and pay special attention to the psychological movement of the main character.b. writing task: Write a short essay of about 160—200 words on the changes Vera found in her former lover when they met again six years later.7. Task: Discussing class activitiesPurpose: To reflect on class activitiesProcedure:a. How the lesson was divided and what basic activities were done.b. What you feel you have got from the activities?c. Do there any points need more work?8. Task: Group DiscussionPurpose: To foster students‘ desire to discussion the things in daily life.Procedure:a. (T-Sts): What‘s your idea about the following statement?The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.b. (Sts-Sts): Present their ideas on the public email system.9. Task: class quizPurpose: To check students understanding of the textProcedure:a. Student will be asked to retell the text before a new class.b. The class will do some dictation in class time.IX．Language Points:1. be seated: seat oneself, sit down in some place; locate at someplace就座，坐着，位于He was seated at one of those little bamboo tables.He seated himself at one of those little bamboo tables.2. He was peeling an orange.n.—v. to peel potatoes; to husk the rice; to shell the peas; to weed the garden; to shear the sheep(to cut down the fur of the sheep); to scale the fish3. …to meet her eyes.in my eyes: 我的意见; Eye front: （列队）向前看; have sb. in one‘s eye: 挂念; in the public eye: 公然的, 众所周知; keep an eye on: 留神挂念; run one‘s eye through: 浏览; the eye of day:（诗歌用语）太阳4. light up:(of a person‘s face, etc.) to become bright or animated (指人的脸等)发亮，春风满面；容光焕发Her face lighted up when she heard the good news.5. ― You’ve changed. You’ve changed very much,‖ he said, staring at her with that eager, lighted look. ―You look so well. I’ve never seen you look so well before.‖No. she was not feeling well. She could not bear the cold weather. She shuddered often from the cold. And she was beginning to feel the effect of her growing age. Quite likely she was sick at that time.Probably he tried to say sth. to make her happy or to compensate for his not recognizing her at the first sight.6. …loathe it: hate it very much厌恶憎恨Comparison among detest, abhor, abominate and loathedetest: 强烈的敌视反对abhor: 不喜欢厌恶因为害怕而退缩abominate: 强调特别不喜欢经常指道德上的谴责loathe: 讨厌非常不喜欢主要指人生理上的自然反应7. You were saying:an expression used to encourage someone you just interrupted to continue to spea k. In this sentence, the man didn‘t encourage Vera to talk about herself. He wants to turn the subject back to himself.8. that trick of his: = his trick 强调结构.―Look at that son of yours,‖ the husband shouted at his wife.I like that car of yours. It looks so beautiful.9. exasperate:a. to annoy, to vex; to irritate very much; 使人苦恼，烦恼aggravate: (informal) 惹人生气打搅别人annoy:故意麻烦别人使其气愤烦躁exasperate: 由于一时的不冷静或经历了一再烦恼后无法忍耐而变得愤怒irritate: 不断重复的无礼貌的或粗鲁的行为使人失去耐心而恼火aggrieve:使感受到痛苦或烦恼distress: 使忧虑或受打扰nettle: 尖锐的但短暂的骚扰rile: 激起怒火怨恨的煽动peeve: 经常激起小的或发牢骚的愤怒v. 恶化加重exasperate: 增加严重性或紧张程度aggravate: 使事情变得更坏更严重deteriorate: 损害或降低质量性质或价值的退化exacerbate: 增加暴力程度激烈程度使形势恶化worsen: 恶化使变得更坏10. haunt: vt.(1) 常到，常去；（思想、回忆）萦绕；（疾病）缠住；Memories haunted her.(2) (气氛)充满，弥漫 e.g. Memories of former gaiety haunted the house.11. …behaving like a maniac about the wasps—waving them away, flapping at them with his straw hat, serious and infuriated out of all proportion to the occasion. How she had suffered.What happened that afternoon that made Vera suffer? (He was so childish, trivial, and ridiculous that she felt that he had made a fool of them both.)wave sb./sth. Away: to show that (a person or vehicle) should move in the specific direction, by waving one‘s hand 向（某人或车）挥手示意向某方向移动.She waved them away impatiently.Out of all proportion to the occasion:completely uncalled–for; totally unnecessary under the circumstances12. Yes it had been a wonderful afternoon, full of flowers and—warm sunshine. Her thoughts lingered over the last two words. Her thoughts lingered over the last two words. Which two words?(warm sunshine) Why? (She wished that she could have some warm sunshine at that moment.)13. And in the warmth, as it were, another memory unfolded.As she remembered the warm sunshine, that was part of their experience of Ken Gardens, another memory came to her mind, similarly pleasant.as it were: as if; as you might say; so to speak. Used to comment on the speakers own choiceof words, which may give only approximate meaning. 用以评断自己用词是否恰当，指词义接近而已。
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《大学综合英语》课件——Unit 3 A Dill Pickle
• When the dill pickle is put for a long time, it will get bad. After six years, Vera’s body and economy are not as well as before.
The Symbolic Meaning of the Title of theText
• (1)It symbols Vera’s terrible life.
• Dill pickles may have different flavors, such as sour, sweet, bitter or hot, like one’ whole life. Generally, the taste of the dill pickle is sour, like Vera’s life.
The Comment on the Works of the Writer
• capturing the essence of Chekhov’s art in stories
• emphasizing atmosphere and actual life rather than an exciting plot
• When Vera talked with him about the weather,he interrupted her .It reflects his selfishness,hypocrisy and indifference.The action of tapping on the table shows his arrogance. （Paragraph8-9）
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III. Character analysis
Self-centered
hypocritical
narcissistic
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The Greek mythology: Narcissus
Narcissus Echo Daffodil
纳西赛斯（美少年） 厄科（山林女神） narcissus .
IV. Implication of the Title
Unit 3 The Dill Pickle
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review
discussion
analysis
review
to go over what we’ve learned
analysis
to analyze the text
discussion
to discuss the implication of “A Dill Pickle”
From the woman's perspective
From the man's point of view
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V.Homework
Please write a composition
about the topic—"How to be a good lover?"
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Thank you！
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And she seemed at that moment to be sitting on the grass beside the mysteriously Black Sea, black as velvet, and rippling against the banks in silent, velvet waves. She saw the little group on the grass, their faces and hands white in the moonlight. Apart from them, with his supper in a cloth on his knees, sat the coachman. “Have a dill pickle,”said he, and although she was not certain what a dill pickle was, she saw the greenish glass jar with a red chili like a parrot’s beak.
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ignorant (adj.)
Many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics. (对某事一无所知)
All the time his business was failing, he kept his wife and family in blissful ignorance.(出于关爱而隐瞒真相)
for her “refreshing originality” and “sensitiveness to beauty”.
However, just as she won world fame, her health grew worse. She died of tuberculosis in 1923, when she was 35 years old.
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Did Vera enjoyed the afternoon at Kew Garden? Why or why not?
How do you understand paragraph 15? What does “that” refer to? And what does “his” refer to?
From paragraph 21 and paragraph 22, what conclusion can you draw about Vera’s views on the man?
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Lesson 9
Against all odds
Introduction to the Text
This text is adapted from the biography of Stephen Hawking—Stephen Hawking: A life in Science, 2nd edition, written by Michael White and John Gribbin, published in 2019.
Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. He showed that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory. One consequence of such a unification that he discovered was that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another conjecture is that the universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time. This would imply that the way the universe began was completely determined by the laws of science.
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Why did the woman left the man?
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woman: sensitive the man: egotistical; self-conscious; selfinvolved; self-engrossed; insensitive to others’ feelings
Question: How does a dill pickle taste? A dill pickle tastes sour, spicy, bitter and sweet. Any implications here? > It may symbolize the feeling of Vera, a mixture of flavors. Question: After you tasted dill pickles, would you enjoy them a lot? You wouldn't enjoy them very much, because they are not a luxury. They only serve as appetizer. You would not use them as a main course.
Lesson 9 – A Dill Pickle
Implication of the Title
From the woman's perspective:
Look at the implication of the title from various perspectives.
Here pickle refers to the whole encounter of the woman. Vera's life is very dull. So the meeting serves as an appetizer just as a stone is thrown into the motionless water and stirs up various desires to break the dull life of Vera. On the whole, a dill pickle appeals to you with attractive colors: greenish jar, red chili. But once you open the jar, one is enough and you won't finish the whole jar, which implies that the meeting will not bring Vera full satisfaction.
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infuriate
To make furious; enrage vt. 激怒, 使发怒, 使极为不满 be infuriated at 对...极为愤怒
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“她象看到蝮蛇一般突然跳起来/…这种恐惧使他震 颤” （莎士比亚）
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exasperate
To make very angry or impatient; annoy greatly. To increase the gravity or intensity of:
Constant interruption of his work exasperated him. The North Korea is exasperated by the joint military maneuvers.
terrestrial heat
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grimace
A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust To make a sharp contortion of the face n.愁眉苦脸; (表示痛苦、厌恶、不以为 然等的)怪相; 鬼脸
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Quake refers to more violent movement, as that caused by shock or upheaval: Quake 指更强烈的运动，如由于冲击 或巨变引起发抖： I was so terrified that my legs began to quake. 我被吓坏了，连腿都开始发抖。
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What a terrible thing for a man to believe. “How stupid he must think me！” said Billy.
Write a short essay of about 160-200 words on any of the following topics. 1. The changes Vera found her former lover when they met again six years later. 2. why Vera broke off with her lover six years ago and how she realized that it was impossible for them to pick up their romantic relationship when they met again.
Corsica French island in the Mediterranean, north of the island of Sardinia（撒丁岛）.
Six years later, Vera saw him again, but he didn’t recognize her until she came towards him. She didn’t feel well with the old age, and he was still in the habit of interrupting her, the same case as six years ago. Together they recalled the first afternoon they spent together at Kew Garden, the man’s memory was filled with warm sunshine, while what Vera remembered was an absurd scene. The warmth in his words brought back her memory that they together in the lawn, he was deeply in love with her then. But now he looked far better than he had been. He talked a lot about his own experience in traveling around the world, especially the journey in Russia, while ignoring Vera’s obvious plight condition. In their talking about the men’s childhood story, Vera even remembered the details better than the man himself. The man’s insensitivity was best revealed when he referred to the letter written by Vera, he considered it funny to read it again. His trivializing the letter and thus their relationship hurt Vera a lot. But the man’s pleading her to say with him comforted her, hoping that their relationship would develop toward a better direction. However, the man’s claim that they’re both egoistical and self-engrossed hurt her deeply, finally she decided to leave him again.
Reading comprehension Questions on the text
Can you use your imagination on the basis of the clues provided in the text and reconstruct the story of Vera and the man? What do you know about Vera?
Do you think the text bears out the critic's opinions of Mansfield’s writings?
Don’t you feel well?
Aren’t you asking us to accept a pretty incredible coincidence? Isn’t that enough for you?
Kew Gardens
Famous botanical gardens located in a part of Richmond in Greater London, England.
The war Judging by the author’s life background, this can only refer to the First World War
His insensitivity contrasts with Vera’s strong sensitivity. Vera can imagine the man’s visiting in the Volga vividly as he describe, and she can even remember the details of the man’s boyhood story better than the man himself. The man’s insensitivity can be best seen in his recalling to the letter written by Vera six years ago, he stated that “I found that letter the only day, and I couldn't help laughing as I read.” His trivializing the letter as well as their relationship hurt Vera deeply inside.
An analysis of the text structure
Part One Paras.1-4: Recognition of the former lover 6 years after they departed.
Part Two Para. 5-21: The recall of their get-together in the past days.
In all, it is the man’s hardly understanding of Vera’s feeling and his overdue self-engrossment that made Vera determine to break off their relationship and leave him again finally.
What do you think was the nature of their relationship six years earlier?
Can you describe the setting in which they met again six years later?
Do you find Vera’s beautiful? Which one doห้องสมุดไป่ตู้you like best?
THE reason for Vera break off their relationship six years before and after was that the man was too self-engrossed and insensitive to show his concerns to others, what’s more, he even blamed this self-involvement on Vera’s part as well.
Part Three Para. 22-46: The men’s description of his traveling experience.
Part Four Para. 47-51: The memory of the men’s boyhood stories.
Part Six Para. 52-65 : The man’s indifference broke the heroine’s hope to renew their relationship and she made up her mind to leave the man finally.
The man is an egoist in that the he’s got the habit of interrupting other people’s words. The trick of interruption exasperates Vera a lot six years ago, and it was the same case until now. during the whole conversation, the man concentrated most on himself, talking a lot about his traveling experience around the world, totally ignoring the obvious fact that Vera was now living in a plight.