Choose one or more:
1. In chapter XI of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck tries to embody the stereotypes of being a girl in the 19th C but he fails. In what ways do the two cousins in Watkins' story (not) conform to the same or other stereotypes? Isn't it more the women's mind that's at stake in that story? How are differences characterized.
2. Comment on the shift(s) from direct to indirect speech in "The Two Offers" and on the effects they convey to the readers.
3. In keeping with the text's style, write a short creative piece imagining how Laura, at the end of her life, would answer to Janette's question: "Well, suppose there is [the risk of being an old maid], is that the most dreadful fate that can befall a woman?
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