style from the Realist

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS. THIS NOT AN ESSAY. NO STUDENT’S NAME OR TOPIC ETC. YOU DON’T HAVE TO COPY THE QUESTIONS. DON’T SKIP ANY SPACES. JUST GIVE ME THE ANSWERS. THANKS!

QUESTION 1. (Realism and Modernism) How is T. S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” different in style from the Realist works we’ve been reading? What is the dilemma in which the narrator apparently finds himself? What phrases or images are especially striking?

QUESTION 2. (The Harlem Renaissance) In “Who’s Passing for Who?” why does the narrator consider Caleb’s friends boring? What is the significance of some of the names the narrator drops–Jean Toomer, Ulysses, Man Ray, etc.? What does the mention of those names imply about the narrator?

QUESTION 3. (Brown Girl, Brownstones) Why is “buying house” so crucial for the Bajan community that Paule Marshall describes in the opening chapters of Brown Girl, Brownstones? Choose descriptions, speeches, or other passages in the novel that explain this aspiration, directly or by implication.