The paper must analyze the play “How I learned to drive” by Paula Vogel. The paper must use integrated quotes throughout the arguments from the play. The paper must frame a manageable thesis. The paper must be written the way a New Criticism writer would analyze a topic. The paper must ask the questions a New Criticism writer would ask and discuss: questions like:
How does the work use imagery to develop its own symbols? (i.e. making a certain road stand for death by constant association)
What is the quality of the work’s organic unity? In other words, does how the work is put together reflect what it is?
How are the various parts of the work interconnected?
How do paradox, irony, ambiguity, and tension work in the text?
How do these parts and their collective whole contribute to or not contribute to the aesthetic quality of the work?
How does the author resolve apparent contradictions within the work?
What does the form of the work say about its content?
Is there a central or focal passage that can be said to sum up the entirety of the work?
How do the rhythms and/or rhyme schemes of a poem contribute to the meaning or effect of the piece?
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