"The Sisters"

 

 

Discussion starters:

  • Describe Marta's relationship with Sukey (the narrator).

 

  • What imagery best characterizes Jan Redlinghuis?

 

  • What is the importance of the final line: "Do now as seems right to you," I said to my father.  "Who am I that I should judge you?"

 

Critical Sources:

  •  Haresnape, Geoffrey. "Barriers of Race and Language: Pauline Smith's Critique of a Rural Society."  English in Africa, 4.1 (1977): 40-46.

  • Smith, Pauline.  "Background to Platkops." The Unknown Pauline Smith.  Ed. Ernest Pereira.  Pietermaritzburg: U of Natal P, 1993.  158-65.

 

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