The Pace of Youth by Stephen Crane
Directions: Please answer each of the following questions using E3 format. Explain your answer or opinion, give examples and evidence from the story, and expand by comparing to another story we have read or your own experience.
Questions
1. How do Frank and Lizzie communicate with each other while they are working?
2. What kind of man is Mr. Stimson? Describe him?
In this article, at the first paragraph, it said “He was a fierce man and had indomitable whiskers, albeit he was very small.â€
3. How do Frank and Lizzie behave around Mr. Stimson?
4. How does Mrs. Stimson behave around her husband?
5. How does Jennie help Frank and Lizzie?
6. Why do you think Mr. Stimson doesnâ€TMt like Frank and Lizzieâ€TMs relationship?
7. When Jennie said she wanted to look at the sea, what was she really doing?
8. Why did Lizzie not look at her father and keep playing with the money?
9. Crane has been quoted as saying "a story should be logical in its action and faithful to character. Truth to life itself was the only test, the greatest artists were the simplest, and simple because they were true." Is The Pace of Youth true to life? In what way?
10. Some critics have said that Craneâ€TMs descriptions are like an impressionist painting. Look at the vocabulary for the story. Do some of them give visual images or flashes of light and color? Which ones? Choose 5 words that give you the impression of art and write the sentence you found them in. Tell what the word reminds you of.