29 pages • 58 minutes read
To Da-Duh, In Memoriam
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967
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Essay Topics
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How does Paule Marshall use idiomatic dialect to show the similarities and differences between the narrator and Da-duh?
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The narrator describes Da-duh as a “monarch.” What does this word imply? How are Da-duh’s queenly aspects emphasized throughout “To Da-duh, in Memoriam”?
3.
Da-duh shows the narrator many fruit trees and remarks disparagingly of the chestnut tree outside the latter’s home, “Nothing can bear [fruit] there” (101). What role does the abundance of Barbados play in the story?
