The Woman of Letters

Denne study guide giver dig hjælp til at analysere novellen "The Woman of Letters" af Angela Readman. I analysehjælpen dækker vi blandt andet opgaveformuleringen fra den skriftlige eksamen i Engelsk A på STX fra 18. august 2017, hvor opgaveformuleringen lød:

Write an analytical essay (700-1000 words) in which you analyse and interpret Angela Readman’s short story “The Woman of Letters”.

Your essay must include the following points: a characterisation of the narrator, the narrator’s relationship to her son, the structure, the main theme.

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “The Woman of Letters” (2015)
Forfatter: Angela Readman
Genre: Novelle

Angela Readman (f. 1973) er en engelsk digter og novelleforfatter, som har modtaget flere nationale litterære priser for sine værker.

Uddrag

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Title

The title of the short story, “The Woman of Letters”, refers to the narrator and indicates that the story is going to be character-focused. In the story, the narrator considers herself a woman of letters because she acts as a translator for local girls to help them find husbands abroad:

I am a woman of letters – the only woman for kilometres who reads and writes English. I hear someone call me an interpreter once, I didn’t care for it. There’s more of an art to it. I’ve married dozens of girls. (ll. 8-11)