The Ring by Isak Dinesen Question and Answer How Would You Descibe Lise? Find Atleast 2 Textual Evidence That Support Your Opinion in #1?

The Ring, by Isak Dinesen

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1. How would you describe Lise?

 Lise is a naive, spoiled young woman who wants to test the degree of her husband's love for her. She doesn't see marriage as a two-way street but as a means to satisfy her childhood fantasies about a husband who would someday sweep her off her feet. Therefore, she hides in the woods hoping her husband, Sigismund, will desperately come looking for her: "Lise wanted Sigismund to worry about her just like he had worried about the sheep. By doing this she encountered the sheep thief in her small void." Through conversations with the sheep thief, Lise realizes how shallow and limited her views of marriage and life have been. The sheep thief steals to survive and lives a poor, primitive existence. Lise discovers that the world isn't so perfect, and her ideals are unrealistic and ungrounded.

2. Find at least two pieces of textual evidence that support your opinion in #1.

"Lise wanted Sigismund to worry about her just like he had worried about the sheep. By doing this she encountered the sheep thief in her small void."

’She took a step backward, the immovable, blind face before her, then bent as she had done to enter the hiding-place, and glided away as noiselessly as she had come.’

3. Why do you think Lise doesn’t rat out the sheep thief?

4. Is Lise mature enough to be someone’s wife? Explain your opinion.

5. Do you think Lise will continue to be a wife or choose something else for herself?