![]() ![]() Leo bonds with his friends when there is almost a race riot on the fi rst day of their senior year of high school. How do you interpret this symbol and its prevalence in the book?Ħ. ![]() One of the book’s most memorable images is the “crying” smiley face that Trevor and Sheba’s father uses as his calling card. Leo’s great good fortune was the result of sacrifi ce. Leo realizes that he never would have inherited “the best house in Charleston” if he had revealed the identity of the boy who made him carry cocaine. ![]() What role does beauty play in the book? How are the beautiful characters different from the homely ones?Ĥ. Other characters, such as Stephen, Sheba, Trevor, Molly, and Chad, are described by their physical beauty. Fraser, too, is less than beautiful-she is defi ned by her failure to be fully feminine, by her broad shoulders and muscular limbs. Leo is described as being a plain boy from the very start of the novel and his unfortunate nickname is the Toad. ![]() Leo’s mother doesn’t exactly approve of his friendships with Starla, Niles, Sheba, and Trevor, yet without her intervention, it’s unlikely he would have met and befriended any of these characters. What’s the signifi cance of this? Why did Conroy choose Ulysses to be the all-consuming passion of Leo’s mother?Ģ. James Joyce’s Ulysses is brought up several times in South of Broad- Leo’s mother is a top James Joyce scholar and she named both her sons after Ulysses’s main characters. ![]()
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