Characters Significance and Meaning Interpretations Time and Place Comprehension
100
What is Clay?
Who is Corporal Z?
100
What is to show to Esmé that he has lost control of his mind and his body as a result of the war and PTSD?
Why does Sergeant X spell out faculties in the closing paragraph?
100
What is up to your interpretation?
-The narrator's life has been destroyed by war
-He failed to keep Esmé's promise
What does the ending mean?
100
What is April 1944?
When does the first flashback take place?
100
What is First Person?
What point of view is the first flashback in?
200
What is a Nazi propagandist and politician?
Who is Goebbels?
200
What is they are one in the same person?
What is Sergeant X allows the narrator to express the trauma from the war from a removed standpoint?
What is the relationship between the narrator and Sergeant X?
200
What is up to your interpretation?
-Realistic interpretation of Salinger's life
-Exaggerated as the story is fiction/more contradictory in the narrator's emotional standpoint.
Is Sergeant X's story realistic or exaggerated?
200
What is
-Gaufurt, Bavaria?
-Germany?
-A few weeks after V-E Day?
When does the second flashback take place?
200
What is Third Person (Limited)?
What point of view is the second flashback in?
300
What is to protect their anonymity?
Why are Sergeant X and Corporal Z named as such?
300
What is to visit with his mother-in-law who may be dying/getting older?
Why doesn't the narrator go to Esmé's wedding?
300
What is up to your interpretation?
- Real life events made into a story for a real girl that the narrator met.
-Possibly a figment of Sergeant X's imagination and the effects of PTSD
Are the flashbacks in the story real or made up?
300
What is North Africa?
Where did Esmé and Charles' father die?
300
What is Squalor?
What key term does Esmé want in her story that the narrator is going to write?
400
What is an unknown aristocratic or noble title?
What is Esmé's title?
400
What is her father was also in the military, and the wristwatch was a navigator's chronograph?
What is the narrator was also in the military?
What is a sense of direction in the war?
What is the significance of Esmé's father's watch?
400
What is up to your interpretation?
-Esmé
-PTSD
-His inability to perform certain tasks like writing
-His addiction to cigarettes/nicotine
Who or what reminds Sergeant X of his faculties during the war?
400
What is a church and/or a tea room?
Where does the narrator go in town in the first flashback?
400
What is a jazz singer?
What does Esmé want to be when she grows up?
500
What is fleeing human interaction and relationships, innocence, and/or consistency?
What does Esmé represent in the war?
500
What is to bring a comedic sense to the wedding? What is to stir up conversation or memories?
Why does the narrator want to cause Esmé's groom an "uneasy moment or two"?
500
What is up to your interpretation?
-Sergeant X may not be fully open with talking about events that involve the war with his wife
-She may also know, and does not ant him to open old wounds from the war
-If he is married, and she is getting married, they probably have already found their respective partners
Does the narrator's wife know about Esmé and their relationship, and does she want to stop him from going to Esmé's wedding?
500
What is Ohio?
Where does Esmé want to live when she grows up?
500
What is a crystal?
What broke on Esmé's wristwatch?






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