The "Japan" group should answer two of the following:
Q1: The wife in "This Blessed House," Twinkle, becomes obsessed with the Catholic left-overs in their new house--plates, statues, and even a bust of Jesus. Why does she take such interest in these relics, and why does her husband disapprove, finding it an example of "bad taste"?
Q2: After one of her driving lessons, Mrs. Sen exclaims, "Everyone, this people, too much in their world" (121). What terrifies or disturbs her most about life in America? What doesn't make sense to her here, and makes it difficult to her adapt to this new way of life?
Q3: Why can we read "This Blessed House" as another variation on the themes of Wide Sargasso Sea, particularly between Rochester and Antoinette? What brought them together, and what has happened to them post-honeymoon? Is this another story of circles and ideals?
Q4: How does Mrs. Sen expand Eliot's 'circle' and change the way he perceives his own day-to-day world? What ideas does she 'translate' for him that he never even considered or understood before? Do these ideas come from Mrs. Sen's Indian identity, or is she simply showing him a woman's point of view?
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