Grace Paley

"A Conversation with my Father"


1 The story is a fictional story about writing fiction. How does Paley use the conversation as a commentary about fiction?

2 Paley does not directly describe the characters, yet readers get a strong sense of who the two people are. How does she describe the two characters?

3 Explain the final line in relation to the debate between the daughter and the father regarding the story.


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