We will start today by taking up the questions for Transients in Arcadia, then you’ll hand them in. Next you will choose to analyze Transients in Arcadia using either Archetypal literary criticism or Reader Response literary criticism. Your analysis will be approximately 500 words and should attempt to use the key ideas and terms of your chosen style of literary criticism to answer the following question: What are the important ideas in this story?

For homework, read “On the Rainy River”