| List ten details or points about the character of the narrator or her male subject in Joan Frank’s “The Alpha Male.” These can be concrete physical descriptions, gestures, actions, etc. and should be drawn directly from the story itself. After you’ve compiled your list, select three of the details and explain them in more detail. How do specific details suggest character above and beyond what we are directly told? For example, at one point the narrator describes the man at the party as a “Nicolas Cage lookalike” with “the requisite black everything.” What does this tell us about him? Or is this a detail that reveals her character? |