The narrator and his wife reveal something about their character in their words and actions. We also learn about them from what other people say. Can you pick out the words that describe them from the box given below? Also, pick out lines and instances from the story to illustrate your choice.

shy

arrogant

loyal

clever

overconfident

Manipulative

protective

self-disparaging

suspicious

sceptical

jealous fearless

Firm

shrewd

strong

gullible

sly

creative

Loves novelty and thrills

Person

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What it tells us about the character

John Hallock

1. …in the end things had always come my Hallock way….. somehow I'd always been able to dig one (plot) up for him, so I'd begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability (to write stories).

1.

2. "But my ghosts aren't a bit like you----".

2. sceptical

3. We scout around until we find a writer without ideas and with a mind soft enough to accept impression.

3. gullible

4.

4. creative

5.

5. protective

Lavinia Hallock

1.

1. loves novelty and thrills

2.

2. Spendthrift

3.

3. suspicious

4.

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4. jealous

5. Buys the Ouija board but says it is for John's research

5. manipulative

6. Does not flinch when she meets the ghost but talks to her casually.

6. strong

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Person

Extract from story

What it tells us about the character

John Hallock

1. …in the end things had always come my Hallock way….. somehow I'd always been able to dig one (plot) up for him, so I'd begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability (to write stories).

1. Overconfident, self-disparaging

2. "But my ghosts aren't a bit like you----".

2. sceptical

3. We scout around until we find a writer without ideas and with a mind soft enough to accept impression.

3. gullible

4. A ghost story had been the first fiction I had written. Curious how that idea for a plot had come to me out of nowhere after I had chased inspiration in vain for months! Even now whenever Jenkins wanted a ghost, he called on me.

4. creative

5. I threw a protecting husbandly arm about her to catch her when she should faint.

5. protective

Lavinia Hallock

1. …and how on earth I was going to cure her of her alarming tendency to take every new fad that came along and work it to death.

1. loves novelty and thrills

2. You know I bought the loveliest thing this afternoon.

2. Spendthrift

3. Lavinia stopped and began to look at me through narrowed lids much as she had done in the library the evening before.

3. suspicious

4. She went on, “It is bad enough to have you flirt over the Ouija board with that hussy…..

She thrust me back with sudden muscle. “I will see who’s behind you! Where is that Helen?”

4. jealous

5. Buys the Ouija board but says it is for John's research

5. manipulative

6. Does not flinch when she meets the ghost but talks to her casually.

6. strong

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superstitious	arrogant	loyal	clever
over-confident	manipulative	good orator	ambitious
brave	great conqueror	generous	fearless
loves flattery	firm	shrewd	crafty

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Julius Caesar	1. the things that threaten’d me Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanished.	1. arrogant
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Person	Extract from play	What it tells us about the character
Mark Antony	1. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________
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superstitious	arrogant	loyal	clever
over-confident	manipulative	good orator	ambitious
brave	great conqueror	generous	fearless
loves flattery	firm	shrewd	crafty

Person	Extract from play	What it tells us about the character
Julius Caesar	1. the things that threaten’d me Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanished.	1. arrogant
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Person	Extract from play	What it tells us about the character
Mark Antony	1. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________
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	3. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________
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superstitious	arrogant	loyal	clever
over-confident	manipulative	good orator	ambitious
brave	great conqueror	generous	fearless
loves flattery	firm	shrewd	crafty

Person	Extract from play	What it tells us about the character
Julius Caesar	1. the things that threaten’d me Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanished.	1. arrogant
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Person	Extract from play	What it tells us about the character
Mark Antony	1. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________
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Both Madame and Mr. Loisel reveal something about their character. Can you pick out the words that describe them the best from those given in the tables below? Pick up lines from the story to illustrate you choice.

contented, practical, trusting, ambitious, simple, caring, understanding, materialistic, honest, dishonest, heroic, hardworking, helpful, down to earth, proud, supportive, cruel, greedy, dissatisfied, daydreamer

Person	Extracts from the story	What it tells us about the person
1. Madame Loisel	1.	1. She was dissatisfied with her married life. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
2. Mr. Loisel		1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
3. Madame Forestier		1. 2.

Choose extracts from the story that illustrate the character of the people listed in the table given below. There are some words given to help you. You may add words of your own. One has been done as an example:

vain

jealous

competitive

shrewd

manipulative

stingy

materialistic

spiteful

Character	Extract from the story	What this tells us about the character
Mrs. Packletide	(i) The compelling motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing	Competitive
	(ii) Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without over-much risk or exertion,	_____________
	(iii) Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and her pictured fame reached from the pages of the Texas Weekly Snapshot to the illustrated Monday upplement of the Novoe Vremya.	_____________
Louisa Mebbin	(i) "If it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money."	_____________
	(ii) Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination	_____________
	(iii) "How amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened," said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball.	_____________
	(iv) Louisa Mebbin's pretty week-end cottage, christened by her "Les Fauves," and gay in summer-time with its garden borders of tiger-lilies, is the wonder and admiration of her friends	_____________
Loona Bimberton	(i) As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotions	_____________
	(ii) there are limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous.	_______________

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Person	Extract from story	What it tells us about the character
John Hallock	1. …in the end things had always come my Hallock way….. somehow I'd always been able to dig one (plot) up for him, so I'd begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability (to write stories).	1. ______________
	2. "But my ghosts aren't a bit like you----".	2. sceptical
	3. We scout around until we find a writer without ideas and with a mind soft enough to accept impression.	3. gullible
	4. __________________________ __________________________	4. creative
	5. __________________________ __________________________	5. protective
Lavinia Hallock	1. __________________________ __________________________	1. loves novelty and thrills
	2. __________________________ __________________________	2. Spendthrift
	3. __________________________ __________________________	3. suspicious
	4. __________________________ __________________________	4. jealous
	5. Buys the Ouija board but says it is for John's research	5. manipulative
	6. Does not flinch when she meets the ghost but talks to her casually.	6. strong

Person	Extract from story	What it tells us about the character
John Hallock	1. …in the end things had always come my Hallock way….. somehow I'd always been able to dig one (plot) up for him, so I'd begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability (to write stories).	1. Overconfident, self-disparaging
	2. "But my ghosts aren't a bit like you----".	2. sceptical
	3. We scout around until we find a writer without ideas and with a mind soft enough to accept impression.	3. gullible
	4. A ghost story had been the first fiction I had written. Curious how that idea for a plot had come to me out of nowhere after I had chased inspiration in vain for months! Even now whenever Jenkins wanted a ghost, he called on me.	4. creative
	5. I threw a protecting husbandly arm about her to catch her when she should faint.	5. protective
Lavinia Hallock	1. …and how on earth I was going to cure her of her alarming tendency to take every new fad that came along and work it to death.	1. loves novelty and thrills
	2. You know I bought the loveliest thing this afternoon.	2. Spendthrift
	3. Lavinia stopped and began to look at me through narrowed lids much as she had done in the library the evening before.	3. suspicious
	4. She went on, “It is bad enough to have you flirt over the Ouija board with that hussy….. She thrust me back with sudden muscle. “I will see who’s behind you! Where is that Helen?”	4. jealous
	5. Buys the Ouija board but says it is for John's research	5. manipulative
	6. Does not flinch when she meets the ghost but talks to her casually.	6. strong