Short story
17th Jan, 2008

1.        Attempt only one of the following extracts:

A.        "Six years of marriage, and only a few months of love. …  if I could only again be as was when he first saw me."

B.        "do you catch the likeness of any face or figure as you look?"

C.        "but we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day."

D.        "yes, he went home. And when I was only a week in the convent he died and he was buried in Oughterard, where his people came from. O, the day I heard that, that he was dead."

2.        Examine only one of the following topics:

A.        Jealousy in both stories.

B.        The journey westward in both stories.

C.        The Withered Arm, and The Dead as a tragedies.

D.        The Withered Arm, and The Dead are about the influence of the past on the present.