1. Why do you think the short story was called, "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?" Why do you think Walt called Eloise's twisted ankle "Poor old Uncle Wiggily?"
2. What do you think is the significance behind Ramona's imaginary beaus and what do you think is the significance behind her "killing off" (for lack of a better term) Jimmy and replacing him with Mickey?
Passages:
"'Besides. Listen to me, career girl. If you ever get married again, don't tell your husband anything. Do you hear me?"
"Why?" said Mary Jane.
"Because I say so, that's why," said Eloise. "They wanna think you spent your whole
life vomiting every time a boy came near you. I'm not kidding, either. Oh, you can tell
them stuff. But never honestly. I mean never honestly. If you tell 'em you once knew a
handsome boy, you gotta say in the same breath he was too handsome. And if you tell
'em you knew a witty boy, you gotta tell 'em he was kind of a smart aleck, though, or a
wise guy. If you don't, they hit you over the head with the poor boy every time they get a
chance." Eloise paused to drink from her glass and to think. "Oh," she said, "they'll listen very maturely and all that. They'll even look intelligent as hell. But don't let it fool
you. Believe me. You'll go through hell if you ever give 'em any credit for intelligence.
Take my word.'" (45-46)
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"'Mary Jane. Listen. Please," Eloise said, sobbing. "You remember our freshman year,
and I had that brawn-and-yellow dress I bought in Boise, and Miriam Ball told me
nobody wore those kind of dresses in New York, and I cried all night?" Eloise shook
Mary Jane's arm. "I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?'" (56)
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