The Feather Pillow

What details from the story help the reader predict the outcome of the story

"Then her sobs subsided, and she stood a long while her face hidden in the hollow of his neck, not moving or speaking a word.

In the depths of her illness, Alicia imagines she see what

Her husband try to kill her

At the beginning of The Feather Pillow, what gives the young bride "hot and cold shivers"

Honeymoon

What is a Gothic theme that can be found in The Feather Pillow

House with secret evil

The Feather Pillow uses the Gothic form to show the effects of what

Isolation for women in old-fashioned communities

The greatest English teacher of all time

Ms. Cogdell

Why is significant (foreshadowing) that Alicia only gets worse at night?

Predict that something bad is happening to her while she sleeps.

Quirinal's Gothic story is a product of what culture?

Product of Latin American culture

Writer who inspired Horacio Quiroga

Rudyard Kipling - fun fact he is the author of The Jungle Book

What does the feather pillow have to do with Alicia's death

The creature "parsite" sucks her blood

Horacio Quiroga, like Edgar Allan Poe, believed that every word and action in a short story should build to a unified emotional effect. What effect do you think Quiroga was trying to achieve in The Feather Pillow? What aspects of his style show him trying to achieve that effect? How well do you think he achieved the effect and why?

The effect Quiroga wishes to achieve is one of suspense in horror. The way author describe the house and Jordan's repeating footsteps are effective of horror for the audience back to his time.

How does the author describe Alicia and Jordan's house

White, bleak, cold, glacial, wintery

Alicia is dying due to her blood being sucked out at night

conflict

"then her sobs subsided, and she stood..."

example of alliteration

"Her...terrors advanced now in the form of monsters that dragged themselves toward the bed and... climbed upon the bedspread."

example of foreshadowing.

"hostile house"

example of personification

What are the servant's strongest feelings at the end of "The Feather Pillow" ?

horror and disgust

What causes Alicia's death?

loss of blood

Anemia

weakness due to low red blood cells

How does the description of the house fit in with the elements of Gothic Literature?

•A bleak or remote setting; often grand like a castle or mansion