I. A Further Setback

1)

a. Henry seems to blind her: she can't see things as they really are.

b. She wants to keep to plain facts and act in a sensible way.

c. Jill is ten times more real to her than Henry; she knows her and she hates to hurt her; they have a life together. She makes her feel safe and serene.

2) No, there isn't.

3)

a.

b. He sees her as one continuous though and problem.

c. Yes, he does.

d. He associated society.

4) His teeth are "set", "bitten together" and his eyes are "almost pale, yellow with fury" .

5)

a. He stands "so everlasting" at the doorway.

b. He looks like a guy.

c. His face goes pale and his lips seem to give off pain.

d. He has 60 miles of wet country to cycle and he doesn't eat.

II. The Dead Tree

1)

A - upper meadow

B - the ducks' route through the meadows into the yard

C - gorse-shaggy meadow

D - Banford's position when the tree falls onto her across the leaning fence

E - the dead tree

F - Henry's route towards the trees

G - shed meadow

H - grass approach to the farm from the main road

2) They are allowed to use all parts of the tree except the timber. It'll make firing.

3)

a. She has managed on her own most of the work on cutting it down.

b. It is twice referred as Henry.

4)

air: damp, with cold mists creeping out of the hollows; cold

light: darkness waiting to skin in from above

sky: bit of yellow where the sun is fading away

5)

March looks like a rabbit because her eyes are very wide open and queer and her upper lip has lifted away from her two white front teeth.

6)

Build: stout

Height little, i.e. short

Face: pink

Facial hair: a white beard

Eyes: smallish, pale-blue, round, with white lashes

Age: not very old

Health: rheumatics in his shoulder

Hearing: slightly deaf

Clothes: a black overcoat, and bowler hat

Walk: he potters, with little short steps

Manner of speaking: thick, rapid, muttering

Manner: nervy

Attitude to helping: he wouldn't lift a stick from the ground

Attitude to the girls: his tone is mocking and satirical

7)

Height: little

Build: stout

Face: rosy

Clothes: a little red woollen shoulder shawl

Voice: high, little

Favourite gesture: wiping the hair from her brow

8)

1. self-deprecatingly

2. laconically

3. coldly

4. sharply

5. mockingly

10)

"Who, me, mind myself?"

"Why, do you think you might hit me with the axe?"

"Absolutely impossible."

11)

a. "turning slowly, spinning strangely in the air and coming down like a sudden darkness on the earth."

b. "No one saw ", "No one heard"; "No one saw ;"No one saw "; "No one except the boy"

c. Henry's point of view.

d. the hunter boy

e. "as he would watch a wild goose he had shot"

12.a)

Henry: 1, 4, 9

Banford's father: 5

March: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8

12.b)

Banford's mother's reaction is not given.

III. She Was Not Happy

1)

March:

" But though she belonged to him, though she lived in his shadow, as if he could not be away from him, she was not happy"

Henry:

" He realized that though he was married to her and possessed her, [...] , though she wanted him to posses her, she wanted it, she wanted nothing else, now, still he did not quite succeed."

2) March doesn't accept that herself is possessed by Henry.

3)

March's: a, f, j, k, m, r

Henry's: c, d, e, l, n, o, p, q, s

The narrator's: b, g, h, i, j

4)

No, Henry's behaviour is not fox - like.

5)

Banford

"Ban": to say that something must not be done, seen, used, ... =prohibit

"ford": a place where a river is not deep, so you can walk or drive across it

Banford prohibits Henry to enter in their house another time ("ban") but Henry can overcome this obstacle ("ford").

March

"March" is the third month of the year and in March spring begins: weather is completely different because sunny days start; that means that something will change in better, but in March's situation this is not true. The second definition, that in my opinion best represents the woman's personality or situation is: if soldiers or other people march somewhere, they walk very quickly (and hardly) with firm regular steps: she always works hard. The expression "time marches on" means that as time goes by, situations change and things do not remain the same: this is what happens to March.