Sauce for the Goose Analysis 1. Write down the main characters, give detail about their personalities. The main characters are Loren, Olivia and Stephen Loren has a lot of money and is a lot older than his wife Olivia. He is killed by Olivia who had set up an ‘’accident’’ because she was in love with another man Stephan, and Loren knew that and he let Olivia wait for three months to figure out if these wasn’t djust fantasies. Olivia Is Loren’s wife but is in love with another man, Stephan. She tells Loren that she is in love with Stephan and tells Loren that she won’t talk to Stephan for three months, but she was lying and talked to him everyday. In the beginning of the story she tries to kill herself but when she met Stephan she played sick to be at home to planning Loren’s murder. But when she had been with Stephan for few months she try to kill him also. Stephan is Olivia lover. He is an actor but is not very good at acting. He met Olivia in a party and he plans Loren’s murder with Olivia. After he had been married Olivia for few months he tries to push Olivia so she would die. 2. What is the setting when the story begins? State of order? The story begins when Olivia had tried to kill herself. 3. What is the main conflict in the story? How is it followed through? The main conflict is that people is trying to kill each other because they are a little bit crazy. 4. What is the meaning of the title? ‘’Carma is a bitch’’
Discussion Answer the following questions and put in your folder; 1. Why do you think the author chose this title for the story? Think of some other titles and decide if they are less, or more, appropriate than the original one. The title means, what is good for one person is also good for another person. And that suits well because Olivia kills Loren so that iss good enough for Stephan kill Olivia and Oliva to kill Stephan. 2. There are various motives for murder in this story. Can you explain why Olivia arranged to kill Loren, why Stephen planned to kill Olivia, and why Olivia wanted to kill Stephen. Olivia killed Loren to get rid of him because she was in love with Stephan and also she would had all his money if he would die. She and Stephan tries to kill each other, maby because they didn’t still like each other. It began with that Olivia found out that Stephan
wanted to kill her and then she got really angry and then she tried also to kill him for revence. Then in the end they both died in the blame og each other. 3. How and why did Stephen and Olivia die in the end? Did the ending surprise you? Did you find it shocking, or satisfying? Stephan went to the cellar to make a trap for Olivia, but Olivia had traped him erlier so he locked in the cellar, by Olivia, he tried to call Olivia but she ‘’didn’t’’ hear him. Olivia wait for another day to let him die and when she got to the cellar to check if Stephan was dead, she got self locked in so she froze also in death. I think the end was very surprising and shocking because I thought that Stephen was still a life and this had all be his plan, but then I found out that they both died. 4. Do you feel sympathy for anyone in the story? Explain why, or why not. I feel sympathy for Loren because he was trying to help Olive and he was trying his best to be a good husband but she didn’t want him and she just killed him, I think that is very unfair for Loren.