陶洁版美国文学选读-第三版-课后习题答案解析
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美国文学选读 第三版 课后习题答案 陶洁(部分)
Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin
Questions
1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography?
Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about
his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English
countryside to record his past. He also says that he has
enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it
2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom
he had been apprenticed?
His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The
aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through
his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left
his brother.
3.How did he arrive in Philadephia?
First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him
off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached
Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was
going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight
or nine o’clock, on the Sunday morning and landed at the
Market Street wharf.
4.What features do you find in the style of the above
selection?
It is the pattern of Puritan simplicity, directness, and
concision(言简意赅). The narrative is lucid(易懂的), the
structure is simple, the imagery is homely(朴素的).
Unit 2 Edgar Allen Poe
1.Who is the narrator? What wrong does he want to redress?
Montresor.
Fortunato, one of wine experts insulted him, so he wanted
to murder him.
2.What is the pretext he uses to lure Fortunato to his wine
cellar?
He baits Fortunato by telling him he has obtained what he
believes to be a cask of Amontillado a rare and valuable
sherry wine.
Fortunato is anxious to determine whether or not it is truly
Amontillado, so he goes to the vault with Montresor.
3.What happens to Fortunato in the end?
He was walled up alive behind bricks in a wine cellar.
4.Describe briefly how Poe characterizes Montresor and
Fortunato as contrasts?
Poe uses color imagery to characterize them. Montresor face
is covered in a black silk mask, In contrast, Fortunato
dresses the motley-colored costume of the court fool, who
gets literally and tragically fooled by Montresor's masked
motives.
The color schemes here represent the irony of Fortunato's
death sentence.
Through the acts, words, and thoughts of Fortunato,we
know He is greedy, he was lured into the dark and somber
vaults just because a cask of Amontillado.
This is also due to his bad habit of bibulosity(酗酒）. He
lost himself on hearing the wine.
At the same time, he was cheated by his enemy, which
reflected his ignorance.
When he heard the pretended compliment from Montresor, he
became very boastful and arrogant.
He was easily confused by the superficial phenomena and
failed to watch out for others. He couldn’t tolerate that
others were stronger than him.
For example, Montresor always stimulated him with Luchresi
who was good at connoisseur（鉴赏） in wine.
Under the impulse of vanity, he fell into Montresor’s
terrible trap.
In fact, he was careless and foolish and didn’t find that
the danger was approaching him.
He looked down upon Montresor and others.
He didn’t realize his foolishness until the death was
coming.
Talking from the appearance, Monstresor was a
well-educated and “kind” businessman.
He enjoyed the honor and respect in the city. But in fact,
he was an evil and awful person.
His inner feelings were so cruel that they even made people
tremble.
Under his rich appearance was the dirty soul and despicable
character.
We couldn’t see any glorious virtues in his mind. Instead,
his heart was cold and dark.
It was the revenge that threw Montresor into the deep evil
valley.
unit 4 Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.Why is the prison the setting of Chapter 1 ?
No matter how optimistic the founders of new colonies may
be, they are quick to establish a prison and a cemetery in
their “Utopia,” for they know that misbehavior, evil, and
death are unavoidable.
This belief fits into the larger Puritan doctrine, which
puts heavy emphasis on the idea of original sin—the notion
that all people are born sinners because of the initial
transgressions of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. he
