现代大学英语精读第二版book3unit3.ppt

1、Katherine Mansfield,A Dill Pickle,A Dill Pickle,Unit 3,Questions/Activities,Check-on Preview,Objectives,Unit 3,Warming up,A Dill Pickle,Warming up,Questions/Activities,Retelling Reconstruct the story by chronological orderhow they fell in love and then broke up, what might have happened to each of t

2、hem during the time before they met again. 2. Role play Dramatize the scene of their reencounterpay attention to the subtlety of tone, look, and action. 3. Love counseling Imagine that you are a relationship counselor and give advice to the two lovers on what goes wrong in their relationship and how

3、 they can make up, if possible.,Fill in the blanks. He closed his eyes an instant, but opening them his face _ up as though he had _ a match in a dark room. He _down the orange and _ on the table for the waitress. His thoughts _over the last meeting between them. And his memory _ as he listened to t

4、he familiar song.,Warming up,Check-on Preview,lit,struck,lingered,lay,tapped,unfolded,Objectives,Understand the story: theme interpret the symbols. 3. Learn to describe a scene or object with accuracy: verbs.,Warming up,Background,History,Author,Unit 3,A Dill Pickle,Author,Background,Katherine Mansf

5、ield (1888-1923) rebellious, dangerously witty, and lonely creative years burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy and alienation: bitter depiction of marital and family relationships died of TBthe “romantic disease”,Her Life,Author,Background,Her Works,In a German Pension(1911) The Garden Party:

6、 and Other Stories(1922) The Doves Nest: and Other Stories(1923) Bliss: and Other Stories(1923) Stream of consciousness Characters psychological activities with detailed descriptions and symbolism,Author,Background,Her Influence,Revolutionized the English short story; Marked the maturity of English

7、short story; Was often compared to Dickens and Chekhov.,1. Womens condition at the time: Women were advocated to cultivate such qualities as “tenderness of understanding, unworldliness and innocence, domestic affection, and above all, submissiveness in various degrees.” 2. “The Woman Question”: risi

8、ng wave of feminist movement (late Victorian age to the early 20th century),History,Background,A Dill Pickle,Text Analysis,Unit 3,Questions for thinking: Do you think the character of the two lovers plays an important role in their relationship? What do you think results in the failure of their love

9、 and communication? How would you describe the two characters relationship as presented in the story? Do you think this is a typical love story? If not, why does the writer choose to tell it this way? Or what is her real purpose in writing such a story?,Text Analysis,Theme,1. Man-Woman relationship:

10、 sexual politics (ideas and activities that are concerned with how power is shared between men and women, and how this affects their relationships) 2. Feminist concern: What does a woman want? It was her “born duty to reckon everything subordinate to his comfort and pleasure, and to let him neither

11、see nor feel anything coming from her, except what is agreeable to him.” J. S. Mill, The Subjection of Women,Text Analysis,Theme,Sexual politics,The man talks while the woman listens. The man controls the conversation, demanding attention. The man is tantalizing, offering hopes that he withdraws at

12、wish. The womans reaction: contradiction compromise rebellion 5. The womans desire to be heard and understood,Text Analysis,Theme,1. Characteristics of modernist writing: symbolic images fragmented plot trivial subjects psychological insightinternal monologues, “stream of consciousness” Many of the

13、images in the story are deliberately symbolic. For example, the flowers. Can you find out the implication of the flowers? Do they take on a second meaning in the story? Why is the story titled “A Dill Pickle”? How is it relevant to a love story? What might it represent symbolically, if it does?,Text

14、 Analysis,Style,Character Analysis,Vera Questions for thinking: How did Vera feel when she saw her former lover? Was she still attached to him? Why did Vera break up with the man six years earlier? Do you think Vera left the man again for the same reasons as the first time? What indeed did Vera want

15、? Why had she been so lonely? Was it because, as the man said, she was an egoist?,Text Analysis,Character Analysis,Vera 5. What does the “strange beast” stand for? Why does the author describe it as a “strange beast”? Is this image conventionally associated with women? 6. How do you understand that

16、Vera was “born out of her time”?,Text Analysis,Character Analysis,The man Questions for thinking: What is the mans name? Why isnt he given a name? Was the man still in love with Vera? If not, why did he seem so happy talking to her and ask her to stay? Why did he “let it go at that” when Vera told h

17、im she had sold her piano? In what tone did he mention the break-up letter? Do you think he really understood now what Vera had written about him? Do you agree with what the man said about Vera? Did he understand her to some extent?,Text Analysis,Text Analysis,Questions for thinking: How does the st

18、ory begin and end? How is it different from a traditional story? Why isnt the story told in the original time order? What kind of effect does it create on the readers mind? We know little of what really happened between the characters. Instead we are provided with only scattered memories and feeling

19、s. Why does the writer withhold the information? Do you find it more intriguing to work out the puzzle than to have a direct and full picture?,Structure,Text Analysis,Structure,1,Paras. 1-12 A chance reunion,2,Paras. 13-51 His story and her story,3,Paras. 52-66 The second breakup,How differently did

20、 Vera and the man react to their chance reencounter? Why? Do you think the man meant it when he said that Vera looked “so well”? Why did he say so? What details in this part have you noticed that might help us understand better the characters and the problem in their relationship?,Text Analysis,Deta

21、iled Analysis,Part I: Discussion,Episode 1 (13-15): first date How did Veras memory differ from the mans recollection of their first date? Why did she later admit that “His was the truer.”? Episode 2 (16-21): on a lawn Why did Vera at the moment think of this particular incident in their love affair

22、? What might it tell of her feelings for the man? How did the mans words at that time contrast with his at the present? Do you find this contrast ironic? Why?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Discussion,24,Royal Botanical Gardens (Kew Gardens), London,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Episode

23、3 (22-43): the Russian trip In what way had the man changed in the six years? And the woman? What influence would it have on their relationship? Why did the man “let it go” when he knew that the woman had sold her piano? Was it strange for him to do so? How did the man describe his experience of the

24、 river life? What picture did it provoke in Veras mind?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Discussion,26,Russia: the Volga & the Black Sea,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,27,Boatmen on the Volga,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Episode 4 (44-51): the night of the Christmas tree What did the man

25、 suggest when he praised the woman as a “marvelous listener”? Why did Vera find “a hint of mockery” in his voice? What did it show that the man did not remember his dogs name whereas Vera did? What did it imply when the man “snapped the cigarette case to”?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Di

26、scussion,Fill in the blanks. Many Chinese people are burdened with prices _their income. This door is narrow _ its height. He _a deep breath and dived into the pool. It has been 10 years since I was at the house. What has _ the old garden?,out of all proportion to,in proportion to,drew/took,Text Ana

27、lysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Exercise (1),become of,Fill in the blanks. After that wonderful performance, the audience _ into a storm of applause. A sudden gust of cold wind and the ensuing thunder made me _. My mother was not quite satisfied with the cow bought by my father but_.,broke out,shiv

28、er,let it go at that,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part II: Exercise (2),Why did Vera want to leave when the man mentioned their breakup six years ago? Why did she then change her mind and stayed? Do you think Vera and the man were lonely for the same reasons? Was she an egoist as he was? Why did she leave again, and so abruptly?,Text Analysis,Detailed Analysis,Part III: Discussion,Unit 3,Reinforcement,Discussion,A Dill Pickle,Language,We find Veras impression o