All written responses to the questions should be an essay of three or more full pages, PLUS the Works Cited page (4 minimum). This is a minimum. If you have more, that's fine. 

• Gogol, “The Overcoat” (Links to an external site.)
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1. Because this is an upper level literature class, and it has prerequisites of composition courses ENG111 and ENG112, it is expected that you are familiar with MLA formatting and citation and you are expected to use it

Nikolai Gogol, “The Overcoat” Select ONE:

1. What is the relationship between realism and fantasy in “The Overcoat”? Compare this combination to the Magical Realism of Gabriel García Márquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.”
2. Compare this story to Maupassant’s “The Necklace.” Both stories revolve around a piece of apparel and in both stories the lives of the protagonists change after they attend a party and lose (or relinquish) their prized possession. How are the overall themes of the stories similar or different?
3. Compare Akaky to another famous copyist: Bartleby. How is Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” influenced by Gogol’s story?