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The Bear Questions and Answers

"Popova's and Smirnov's attitudes towards each other change rapidly." Discuss this statement with examples from The Bear.

Where does the story "The Bear" take place?

Analyze Faulkner’s depiction and use of nature in “The Bear.”

How might one explain the relationship between man and nature in William Faulkner's short work The Bear?

How are the characters developed in "The Bear"?

In William Faulkner's short story "The Bear," what does Sam teach the boy before the first hunt?

What is the end of the play "the bear"? I have read it, but I do not understand whether Smirnov leaves or not?

What is the significance of the allusion to Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn" in Faulkner's "The Bear"?

In Faulkner's The Bear, how is the world of woods different from the world of town?

In "The Bear," part V of William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses, how does Boon Hogganbeck behave, and what could his behavior signify?

Why does Sam die along with Old Ben and Lion?

Why does Boon use a knife to kill Old Ben?

Why is the trip to Memphis to buy Whisky important to this story line? The author could've brought it to climax w/o the trip.

In "The Bear," why does Faulkner place the incidents of section 5 at the end instead of in chronological order?

Why is old Ben compared to Priam in William Faulkner's "The Bear" (from short story collection "Go Down Moses")?

In William Faulkner's story "The Bear" Does the hunting party really want to see the bear shot?

How is hypocrisy linked with Popova and Smirnov in the play "The Bear"?

"The Bear" uses many literary techniques, including symbolism. With that said, what does old Ben symbolize? Is he described as an almost immortal, powerful force, even though he eventually dies? What larger destruction does his death portend? (Think about what happens to the big woods after his death.)

Why does the boy wants to see Old Ben in "The Bear"?

What does it mean by "Ike McCaslin is a properly educated and baptized hero?"

I am in search of an idea for a thesis for a research paper on "The Bear" by William Faulkner.

Take a position on Ike McCaslin. Is it wrong to describe both of his good and bad qualities?

Take a stance on Ike I am trying to write an essay on this. So far, I have come up with the following:Ike is slightly pathetic because-he sleeps with his wife knowing her intentionshe runs away from his responsibilities by repudiating his inheritance.he repudiates his ancestral property to his own cousin thereby still leaving it in the familyhe still accepts a pension from cousin Mccaslin. he thinks he can live off of the gold in the sliver cup.he lives in the bunglow his wife's family gave them even though she turns her back on him.he still joins the hunt for old ben knowing that it would symbolize end of the forest.he does nothing to protect the woodsone can think of the chances he missed to kill the bear as also running away from the responsibilities of a hunter What do you folks think?

What would Ike McCaslin be like if there were no bourbon on the hunt? For that matter, what would Faulkner's books be like if he wern't drinking bourbon?

Who is "The Bear" in the play by Anton Chekhov?