Discussion Questions

A Spinster's Tale Discussion Questions

There are lots of conflicts inside this story, there is man vs. man and man vs. self. Man vs. man is Elizabeth vs her brother and her father. She has a conflict with herself because she is just conflicted on what is going on and what is right in her head. Elizabeth is scared of her brother because of his drinking problem and how he is when he comes home at night after a night drinking.

Her mother's death affects a lot of things in her future and in her flashback story. She misses her mother and remembers the way she use to hold her against her and uses that as an escape from her family. When she enters back to remember her brother and father she seems to have a underlying hate towards them and misunderstanding of why and just doesn't get why she is treated the way she is and why they say the things they do. In her future she ends up single and unmarried, which shows that her father's treatment affected her in the future.