A Sunny Morning wkst

Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence. Incorporate the question into the answer.

1. What do you wonder about as you finish reading this play?

2. At first, Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo are barely civil to each other. How odes their relationship change during the play?

3. Why do you think both main characters decide to keep their true identities a secret?

4. By the end of the play, the main characters are no longer blind to who the other really is. Why don’t they expose each other?

5. Why are the exchanging of flowers on page 98 and the last lines of the poem Dona Laura recites repeated at the end of the play? What purpose does this repetition serve?

6. Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo talk about meeting the next day. What do you think will happen to their relationship in the future?

7. Dona Laura and Don Gonzalo are embarrassed by how old age has altered their appearance. To what extent do you think a person is judged by his or her appearance?

8. Think about all the ways people try to avoid looking old – using face lifts, workouts, hair coloring, makeup, and so on. Should there be so much emphasis on looking young?