1)    The fox has some important qualities that make the title symbolical. A fox is a clever and smart animal, which is good at deceiving people or other animals. Thanks to these qualities, the title is symbolical: the fox might be considered a metaphor. The metaphor refers to somebody (Henry in this case) who is master of other people/animal, somebody who rules. So the others depend on him/her, they are not independent. Other people are like chicken, as you can see in this case.

2)    The short story is arranged into/consists of four parts.

The function of this part is to introduce the reader to the story (you get information about the background/setting in which events take place).

The second part presents a crucial event (the two characters would be married).

The third part is an obstacle for the development of the story: Banford convinced March not to marry Henry (he also went to army).

The fourth part provides a dramatic conclusion.

3)    The characterizations of the characters are based on their culture, family, social class, physical features, job, values money, behavior, hobbies.

4)    The setting of the story (when and where events take place) has a face value, but it can also hint at other things. For example, the landscape and the farm hint at the women’s female state (for example they were anxious like hens which didn’t want to lay eggs). The landscape and the women’s jobs hint at the wartime in which the short story is set.

5)    My favorite character is Henry: although he was younger than the women, he was their master. He was against the fox and Banford (possible escape routes for March). I like him because he had the woman “sleep” in him: he was awake while the women were sleeping. In my opinion, he looks like me in some features (for example I try not to sleep and I don’t want to depend on somebody or something as he did).

6)    The writer exploits the potential of an omniscient narrative technique: the narrator was omniscient (he knows more things than the characters or the readers). It makes us understand that the narrator filtred everything! The reader’s opinion depends on the narrator.

7)    In my opinion, the language used in the short story is not a difficult language to understand. As you can see, the writer repeats adverbs and adjectives. There are semantic fields connected to everything in a farm (animals, trees, house, means,..)

8)    The short story gives us information about the first World War (1914-1918). You can collect information about women’s state: they had to work because men were fighting (March looked like a man). You know something thanks to Henry’s events (where he fought). So you can collect information about the common mentality during that period of war (Banford was afraid because somebody could steal their things).