Porter-Related Web-Sites
- Recent bibliography
- book review of our textbook
- a course page from the University of Minnesota complete with study questions
- study questions from North Harris Montgomery Community College
"Flowering Judas" Study
What is the importance of Laura's three reported wooers -- the young captain, the union man, and Eugenio -- in revealing her character?
What is the significance of Laura's dream?
What does the flowering judas represent?
Do you agree with Gottfried's claim: "Katherine Anne Porter is clearly working in [an] ironic mode in "Flowering Judas," a story dealing with latter-day lost souls" (99)?
Why does Braggioni's wife wash his feet?
Unrue says that "Laura represents the alien . . ." (139). In what ways does she remain an outsider and in what ways does she integrate herself into the Mexico of her day?
Brinkmeyer claims that Braggioni and Laura share a "commitment to noncommitment" (205). In what ways do you see this?