https://www.gutenberg.org/. “Three Questions” by Leo Tolstoy—Project Gutenberg’

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“Three Questions” by Leo Tolstoy—Project Gutenberg’s What Men Live By and Other Tales
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe—The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cask of Amontillado
“The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry—The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Gift of the Magi
“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” by Herman Melville—The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bartleby, The Scrivener
Respond to three of the following questions these must all be answered only with reference to this readings. Identify which questions you are answering.
1. What symbols do you see in Melville’s story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”? You might want to consider the title, the setting, the nicknames and temperaments of the other characters, and the unnamed employer.
2. Define “dramatic irony” and explain how O. Henry used it in “The Gift of the Magi.”
3. How essential is the setting—both the time (1905) and the place (New York City)—to the storyline of “The Gift of the Magi”? How would the story be different if it was set in 2018?