Stories Discussion

1. In “Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs,” what does Chitra Divakaruni say about the disparity between the expectations of immigrants and the reality of immigrant life in the United States?
2. Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories discuss immigration and identity. What do immigrants carry with them to the new country? In what ways do they try to negotiate the differences between the old country and the new? What does Mrs. Sen carry with her to America, literally and figuratively?
3. How does Jhumpa Lahiri use the metaphor of the moon landing to add poignancy and weight to the immigrant experience, particularly the speaker’s experience in “The Third and Final Continent”?
4. Much of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior has to do with silence and language, speaking and not-speaking. In what ways do silence and speaking define the narrator? How do they contribute to her sense of identity, as a woman, as a Chinese-American, as a warrior?
5. How does Sandra Cisneros construct various feminine identities in The House on Mango Street? What does Esperanza see as feminine? What does it mean to be masculine for her? Which is privileged? Does she come to a holistic understanding of what it means to be a woman by the end of this novel?

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