"The Entertainer":
- What do you think of Devlin and Davenport? (What about their names?)
- Why do they want to watch Rachel eat?
- What is the significance of their game of "talking poor"? What does this say about them?
- Who is the entertainer?
- Why is Alice drawn to the women at the pool?
- What's wrong with her father?
- What is Alice like?
- We learn that the women at the pool are a mix of white and black, something unusual for that neighborhood. What ethnicity did you picture Alice as?
- Did you notice that none of the dialogue has quotation marks ("") around it in this story? The convention is to put quotes around dialogue as it is in "The Entertainer": "'Fuck men,' Devlin says" (180). Why do you think Eisenberg doesn't use quotation marks?
-I think of Devlin and Davenport are just two sisters that love to make trouble and also like to make people feel uncomfortable. As I read their names they sound like boy names to me.
ReplyDelete- They want Rachel to eat because it entertains them to watch how she eats so fast.
- The significance of their game of "talking poor" is basically them trying to talk poor because the were born in a rich family and also because Rachel is not as rich as them.
- The entertainer in the story is Rachel.
-Alice is drawn to the women at the pool because they look just like her(fat) and they are not afraid to show the world what they look like.
-Her father had went though a divorce with his ex wife that he still loved but trued to hid it from Alice.
- Alice to me is just a sweet and loving 8 year old girl who doesn’t like to show off her body because of what people will say about her.
-I pictured Alice Ethnicity as Africian American.