수요모임 입니다.
. 일시 : 5월 21일,  10:30am
. 장소 : TCC @ wisma Atria
. 책 : Dear Life / Alice Munro
. 읽을 분량 :  ~Dolly

“Train”
1. After the removal of a tumor, Belle is in a strange state of mind and tells Jackson about what happened on the day her father stepped in front of an oncoming train.  She is relieved to have spoken about this memory.  What effect does this conversation have on Jackson? What makes Jackson decide not to return to the hospital, or to Belle’s house, which he stands to possibly inherit?

2. Do the story of Jackson’s relationship with Ileane Bishop, and what we learn about his stepmother’s abuse, offer an adequate explanation for Jackson’s transient life? What are the human costs, in this story, of what Belle calls “just the mistakes of humanity” ?

“In Sight of the Lake”
1. At what point do you understand that the narrator is having a dream? What strange details indicate this? What is dreamlike about the narrator’s efforts to find the doctor’s office?

2. In what ways does the story most accurately represent the disorientation and confusion that come with aging and memory loss?

“Dolly”
1. Franklin wrote a poem about his passionate affair with Dolly just before the war, and now, when he is eighty-three, Dolly turns up selling cosmetics. Is the narrator’s reaction overblown?

2. What is comical or incongruous about this story? What does it say about the intersection of aging, memory, and passion?