In a short essay of approximately 250 words, please respond to the following:
In Olive Senior’s short story “The Pain Tree,” the narrator’s mother said her daughter was coming home to possess her inheritance. Returning to her childhood home brings the narrator face to face with another side of her past and her inheritance. What is the role of the room and the tree in helping the narrator see her past more clearly?
Please include specific examples and one or more direct quotations from the text, cited in MLA’s (author page) parenthetical citation, in your response.
(Please note: in MLA format, when you are referring to the book, The Pain Tree, the title should be in italics. When you are referring to the short story by the same name, the title should be in quotation marks: “The Pain Tree.”)
