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Responding to Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays, 4/e
Judith Stanford, Rivier College


Interpreting

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1

Find some examples of the characters in The Man in a Case not listening to each other, or responding to each others' remarks with non-sequiturs.
2

How do you interpret the title of the play? Where do you think the title comes from? If you had to come up with three alternate titles for the play, what would they be?
3

How do you interpret the end of the play? What does Byelinkov's gesture reveal about his personality?