The following are two different kinds of structure classification, choose the one you feel more reasonable and follow it to skim the text.



Think about the following questions. You might be asked to answer some of them when we have the online class through QQ.
What is the setting of the story? (the fictional time, the historical time, the place)
Who are the main characters? What do you know about them?
What is the conflict of the story?
How did the wife feel when her husband said it was a bad idea for white people to marry black people?
How did the husband show that he was not a racist?
Why shouldn't white people marry black people, according to the husband? Is this reason justifiable?
How did the wife retort her husband?
What did the husband do when the wife's finger got hurt? What does this show?
What did the husband expect from his wife? What does this show?
Is the cut symbolic of something?
How did the wife pursue the argument after the husband dressed her wound? Why did she do so?
“The only black girl I ever knew was my partner in the debating club.”(para. 28) Is this remark contrary to what he said earlier?
What did the husband mean when he said "if you were black you wouldn't be you?" Do you agree?
Why did the husband refuse to say“yes”?
What did the wife do after her husband answered“No” ? How did she feel?
How did the husband's feelings change? What brought about the change?
How did the husband try to make up with his wife?
Why did the wife ask her husband to turn off the light? What did the man expect to happen when he turned off the light?
What do you think really happened? Why?
What does the ending of the story imply?