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The Foreigner

1. What is you impression of the cab driver?

2. Does the narrator overreact to the driver’s refusal to follow the narrator’s directions? Why or why not?

3. What clue to the theme of the story is provided by the narrator’s description of the cab driver in the first paragraph as an old man who was “in the midst of an attack of perversity and nerves”?

4. What is the theme of the story?

5. What evidence is given of the cab driver’s attitude toward foreigners? Give EXAMPLES.

6. To a certain extent, the narrator understands and accepts the attitudes of the French cab driver and the French magistrate. Give examples to demonstrate the narrator’s position.

7. What irony is implied by the cab driver’s last comment?

8. Describe the author’s tone.