Questions for the Midterm

  1. “Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal’s real.” What does it mean in “The Story of the Stone” and what problems does it reveal for the story and for the society in that period?
  2. In the story “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, Bartleby always said “I prefer not to”. Does the meaning of “prefer not to” real mean what the story show us or it have a deeper meaningful mean and what does it reveal to us?