Discussion Questions
1. How do the two human brain lobes she
acquires relate to "Martha Dow"'s masquerade?
2. Why does the narrator refer to humans
as "mother-haunted"? What does it mean not
to be mother-haunted?
3. What is the tone of the seduction scene
between Miss Dow and Dr. Proctor? Comic? Erotic? Tragic? Mixed?
4. To what extent is Miss Dow a projection
of others' expectations?
5. What parts of the alien culture seem
to be based on scientific extrapolation? What parts on sociological extrapolation?
What parts on analogy? |
