WORKSHEET 3: “Fanny and Annie”
COMPREHENSION
1. Considering the content of page number 1, what is Fanny’s attitude and feelings with respect to her
coming back?
2. D.H. Lawrence offers many details of the working class in this story (this statement is connected to the
sociological critical perspective). Give examples related to:
* The setting:
* Family life:
* Class mobility (ambition):
* Attitudes:
* Speech:
* Clothes:
* Food:
3. Would you consider that the relationship between the protagonists is one of authentic love?
ANALYSIS
4. With respect to the structure of this story, where would you situate the climax?
5. What type of endin g does “Fanny and Annie” have? Can you relate it to the literary period when the story
was written?
6. The industrial setting that appears at the beginning of the short story is both realistic (because Lawrence
kept certain characteristics from the Victorian period, such as the use of realism) and symbolic (because he
also took certain characteristics of Modernism, such as the use of symbols). Apply this statement to the
beginning of the story and give examples.
7. What type of narrator do we have in the story? What type of focalization (Who perceives?) does “Fanny
and Annie” mostly present? Give examples (at least one) from the short story to demonstrate your answer.
8. Apply the appropriate labels to each of the main characters in this short story.
9. How is the protagonist described?
10. Have you found any examples of flashback in the story? Where? What do they explain?
11. How is the beginning of the story: ab ovo, in medias res, in ultimas res?
12. Do you think that there is any foreshadowing in the story?
13. With respect to Diction, comment on the use of words that belong to particular semantic fields. Give at
least two examples (of two semantic fields that predominate in the story).
14. Explain the literary devices that are present in these examples:
14..a "She had come back, she had come back for good" (p. 4)
14..b "The train waited cheerfully" (4):
14..c "Slow clang, clang, clang of iron" (5)
14..d "Her heart nearly stopped beating as she trudged up that hideous and…" (5)
14..e "He sang like a canary" (11)
14..f "She knew her life would be unhappy. She knew that what she was doing was fatal" (11)
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