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Cynthia OzickA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Compare and contrast the amount of historical detail Ozick provides in “The Shawl” and “Rosa.” Why might Ozick provide relatively little information about time and place in the short story as opposed to the novella?
Discuss the ways in which fire imagery recurs throughout both “The Shawl” and “Rosa.” How does the motif evolve over the course of the work as a whole?