American Literature: Hemingway and A Street Car Named Desire

Revise and format your answers to the short-answer questions in part two. Make sure that the titles of longer works are italicized and the titles of shorter works, such as poems and short stories, are in quotation marks.
Oppgave 2201. Critical Ecologies - Don DeLillo - "Airborne Toxic Event" (contextualizing/interpretive analysis)
01. Contextualize the following quote from the “Airborne Toxic Event” chapter of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise. Begin by explaining the situation in which the lines below is uttered: Where and when is the setting? Who says what to whom and why? What does it mean? After summarizing, in your own words, some of the important ideas about information and knowledge raised in this encounter, relate this incident thematically to at least one (1) other communicative exchange with another character (or other characters) that the narrator recounts. Conclude by suggesting how these encounters might enable readers to “see cultural absurdities in a new light” (Levine 1499).
“I didn’t say it. The computer did. The whole system says it. It’s what we call a massive data-base tally. Gladney, J. A. K. I punch in the name, the substance, the exposure time, and then I tap into your computer history […] This doesn’t mean anything is going to happen to you as such, at least not today or tomorrow. It just means you are the sum total of your data. No man escapes that” (1509).23
Oppgave 2302. Modernism: Hemingway or Hurston
02. Answer the following questions, either 02a
02a. Explain why and how lying, and the pressure to tell lies and untruths, is an important theme in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Solider’s Home.” After returning from Europe, why does Harold Krebs tell lies about his experiences overseas? What lies does Krebs tell his mother near the story’s end? In your answer, be sure contextualize and interpret these two lines: “Still, none of it had touched him. He had felt sorry for his mother and she had made him lie” (93). What does the it refer to in the first sentence? What was Krebs’s lie, and why does Krebs believe his mother made him tell it?
Tip: You may want to begin your answer by defining Hemingway’s “principle of the iceberg” and explaining how it relates to the way “Soldier’s Home” raises the theme of lying. Comment on formal features, such as how Hemingway structures the story and how the narrator draws attention to different lies Krebs tells. Conclude your answer by giving your interpretation of the significance of the lies the exchange between Krebs and his mother.
Oppgave 2403. Longer Work: Streetcar or Gatsby
Answer the following questions, 03a
03a. "The shock of Streetcar when it was first staged lay in the fact that [...] this was the first American play in which sexuality was patently at the core of the lives of all its principal characters, a sexuality with the power to redeem or destroy, to compound or negate the forces which bore on those caught in a moment of social change." -- C. W. E. Bigsby
Q: Explain how sexuality is at the core of Blanche DuBois's life in Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire. In your answer, first characterize Blanche, paying particular attention to her sexuality. Next, describe what was shocking or scandalous about Blanche's past, focusing on her sexual history. Be sure to discuss her relationship with Stanley and her fate at Streetcar's end.