WOOD LADIES
1. Point out the different steps in the action.
2. What different persons take up the search? What is the effect of the constant additions to the number of searchers?
3. Why did the author have little children, five and seven years old, play principal parts?
4. Trace the emotions of the mother from the beginning of the story.
5. How did the mother, at different times, explain the child’s absence?
6. Why does the author narrate nothing that is impossible?
7. Point out passages that suggest the supernatural.
8. Tell the story of the little girl in the “greeny sort of dress.”
9. What is the effect of the setting? What gives occasional relief from the setting and thereby emphasizes it all the more?
10. How does the style of the story add to the effect?
11. Show in what ways the story expresses delicate fancy.
12. What is the truth of the story?
13. Write an original story of supernatural beings, using suggestion rather than statement, and avoiding harsh and horrifying events.