Level One:

● Who initially offered Lena a ride?● How many years older is Lena’s brother?● How old is Lena when her parents die?● Where is Lena traveling from?● Who is Lena looking for?

Chapter 1

Level Two:

● How does Faulkner’s use of “ “‘s, ‘ ‘’s, and italics function?● Why does Lena ignore the possibilities of rejection ? (from

Lucas)● How does Lena’s openness about her situation affect her

circumstances?● What evidence shows that Lucas Burch is indeed in

Jefferson?● What conclusion can be drawn from the smoke rising from

town?

Chapter 1

Level Three: ● Is Lena’s sex outside of marriage ethical or unethical?● What are the advantages and disadvantages of Lena being

unmarried and pregnant? ● According to Faulkner, how is he echoing the role of a woman

within this time period? ● According to Faulkner, Is whether the Armstids are black or white

relevant or irrelevant? Why? ● Is is logical or illogical for Lena to travel all the way to Mississippi

to search for Lucas Burch?

Chapter 2: Level One Questions

• What is the distinguishing feature that reveals Joe Brown’s identity?

• What is the definition of the word, “baleful?”

• Who offered Joe Christmas his lunch?

• How is the color of Joe Christmas’s skin described?

• How much does Brown win gambling one evening?

Chapter 2: Level Two Questions

• How does Faulkner’s portrayal of the unnamed workers as a single entity add to their significance?

• What meaning does the planing mill have, if any? Why did Faulkner choose this as the characters’ place of work?

• What do Christmas and Brown’s distinct work styles tell us about their personalities?

• Does Faulkner’s frequent use of synecdoche and metonymy when referring to the workers provide any insights that would otherwise be missed?

• What evidence suggests to the reader that Byron is infatuated with Lena?

Chapter 2: Level Three Questions

• Is it correct for the workers to assume that Brown is likely to quit work at any time?

• Is Byron right when he posits that “a fellow is bound to get into mischief soon as he quits working?”

• Would it have been ethical for Byron to hide Joe Brown’s true identity from Lena?

• Once Lena knows the truth about Brown, what is Byron’s best course of action to resolve the problem?

• Christmas is often judged for his strange name and is doomed to be the victim of prejudice for it. How plausible is it for someone to be cursed by their name?

Chapter 3- Level 1 (Ashmita)

1.What is this an example of, “To the people of the town it sounded like a horse trader’s glee over an advantageous trade.” (pg. 61) - Simile

2. What is the significance of Byron asking what, “D.D.” meant on page 60? Is this information essential.- Hightower’s back story, totally necessary.

3. What kind of weather was the backdrop for Hightower’s wife’s hysterical outburst in church? (pg. 64)- It was the, “hottest spell.”

4. Please summarize the significance of Hightower’s quote, “I reckon that’s just my life.” (pg. 75)

5. On what day was Hightower astonished to receive a visit from Byron Bunch? (pg. 76)- Sunday

Chapter 3- Level 2 (Angel) 1.How does Hightower’s father and grandfather affect him? - He feels like he has standards to live

up to or he is ashamed of them

2. What are the reasons for Hightower not resigning from his preaching position? - His sense of pride and ownership of his life. He felt like that was the only thing he had left

3. How does the burial of sinners from Hamlet and the burial of Hightower’s wife compare to each other? -Hightower didn’t take his wife to the church for a proper burial. Sinners in Hamlet get nothing except maybe a hole.

4. Why did Hightower hide his face if he was only going to stay in Jefferson?- He did it because it was too much at the time, he was wanting the whole situation to be forgotten

5. What causes Byron to think Hightower is afraid of change?- Hightower hasn’t gotten remarried, moved or changed his art sign since he has made it and he has no students

Chapter 3- Level 3 (Aurora) Is it relevant or irrelevant that Mrs. Hightower’s death was made known on a Sunday? -Yes, I think,

because of that being the day for worship and giving a good reason for people to be perturbed by Hightower’s lack of emotion.

According to Faulkner, is Hightower’s treatment of his wife correct or incorrect? -It seems sort of difficult to tell, but I’d say he doesn’t exactly approve of it based on how it is mentioned that perhaps her being as she is is the fault of Hightower’s inability to control himself.

Why does Byron believe that even some of the people spreading the rumors about Hightower do not necessarily believe them? - He feels (and knows) what it is to have a habit and keep it, even if it is unnecessary and perhaps not overly enjoyable.

What are the advantages to sticking to the “devil we know”, so to speak? -If we do not seek out change, we do not have to adapt. As it is written, “it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.” (p.69)

Is gossip good or bad, according to Faulkner? -Bad, as all it seems to do is harm people already down on their luck and drag people into more trouble than they can handle, as with Hightower and his wife and the resulting slow isolation and ostracizing by the town.

Chapter 4 Level 1 Questions1.What physical marking does Lena ask Byron about when he is telling her about Joe Brown that causes her to “recognise” Lucas Burch?

2.Do you think Mrs. Beard believes the story that Lena is married?

3.What does Christmas say to Brown after he supposedly killed Joanna Burden before he runs away?

4.What causes the Sheriff to place Joe Brown as a lot less likely murder suspect then Joe Christmas?

5. How does Byron feel about Lena? Use text from chp. 4 to support your answer.

Chapter 4 Level 2 Questions1. What does Faulkner’s description of Hightower resemble in “Beyond the desk Hightower sits erect. Between his parallel and downturned palms and with his lower body concealed by the desk…”?

2. What causes Byron to “blab” to Lena about Joe Brown and Christmas?

3. Why would the man who reported the burning of Miss Burden’s house go upstairs toward the fire and gather her dead body when she is a feared and dis-respected woman in Jefferson?

4. Interpret Faulkner’s use of imagery on Hightower’s character in “Hightower has not moved… flight has become definite.”

5. Faulkner opens the chapter with light imagery, what effect does this produce and why?

Chapter 4 Level 3 Questions1. Analyze the theme of isolation among the characters of Byron, Lena, Hightower and Christmas

2. Think about Byron’s quote, “And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as a honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.” How would this shape your opinion on Brown’s testimony?

3. Byron respects and even admires Hightower, but Faulkner’s physical descriptions of him do not reflect that. What message does this contradiction reflect?

4. What is the significance of this quote in Chapter 4 for the entire novel? “Go on. Accuse me. Accuse the white man that’s trying to help you with what he knows. Accuse the white man man and let the nigger go free. Accuse the white and the let the nigger run.”

5. What is the reason or effect of Byron narrating this chapter, when it’s about Joe Brown, and Christmas’ alleged murder of Miss Burden? Why does he open up his narration with his encounter of Lena Grove?

1. What can the reader infer about the Dietician when she attempts to buy Joe Christmas’s silence with a dollar?

2. What conclusions can the reader draw about the janitor’s feelings towards Joe Christmas when he kidnaps Christmas in the night and runs away with him?

3. What clues are given to the reader that foreshadows the harsh parenting of the McEacherns?

4. Even though the Dietician suspects Joe Christmas is biracial, she identifies him as being black. What conclusion can the reader draw about societal views of mixed-raced people in this time based on the Dietician?

5. Based on Joe Christmas’s toothpaste experience, what can the reader predict will be his relationship with food in the future?

Chapter 6

Level One Questions1. How old was Christmas when his incident with the

dietician happened?

2. What was Christmas going to get from the dietician’s room?

3. What does the dietician try to bribe Christmas with?

4. Where were Christmas and the janitor found?

5. What did McEachern rename Christmas?

Level Two Questions1. What can the reader infer about the Dietician when she attempts to buy

Joe Christmas’s silence with a dollar?

2. What conclusions can the reader draw about the janitor’s feelings towards Joe Christmas when he kidnaps Christmas in the night and runs away with him?

3. What clues are given to the reader that foreshadows the harsh parenting of the McEacherns?

4. Even though the Dietician suspects Joe Christmas is biracial, she identifies him as being black. What conclusion can the reader draw about societal views of mixed-raced people in this time based on the Dietician?

5. Based on Joe Christmas’s toothpaste experience, what can the reader predict will be his relationship with food in the future?

Level Three Questions1. Is bribing Joe to not tell of the dietician’s actions effective or not?

Why?

2. Is it logical to relate Joe’ struggles with women to this incident?

3. Is it ethical for the dietician to try to have Joe removed from the orphanage to protect her secret?

4. Would it have been better for Joe to have been transferred to the black orphanage instead of being adopted by the McEacherns? Why?

5. Is the janitor’s kidnapping of Joe logical or illogical? Why?

Chapter 7Level 1

• How many times was Christmas whipped for each hour he didn’t learn his catechism?

• What did McEachern pray for ?

• What are the examples of Christmas’ feelings towards women in this chapter?

Level 2

• Why wouldn’t Christmas trust Mrs. McEachern when she is nice to him?

• Why did Christmas refuse to learn his catechism?

• What would Christmas need a suit for, why did he risk Mr. McEachern finding out for it?

Level 3

• Did Christmas need Mr. McEachern’s strictness ?

• Can it be assumed that the black girl was willing to be taken advantage of and Christmas beat her because he didn’t understand that?

• Does Christmas’s rejection of kindness make sense given his past?

• In this chapter we are introduced to Joe’s issue with women, do you think his issue will ever change?

• In what way does the cow represent religion? How do we know this?

Chapter 8

Level 1:

#1 What does Joe use to get down the window?

#2 Who is Joe having an affair with

#3 What are the names of Bobbies proprieters?

#4 What does Christmas order at the dinner?

#5 What is he hiding in the shed?

Chapter 8

Level 2#1 How does he find out she’s a prostitute?

#2 Why does Mrs.McE not tell her husband the money is gone?

#3 Why does he react violently to Bobbie?

#4 Why is he uncomfortable with sexual attraction

#5 why do they laugh at him when he tries to pay back the money he owes?

Chapter 8

Level 3:#1Christmas’ life is largely in flashbacks, why did Faulkner include them all?

#2 Does there seem to be an outside force controlling Joes life?

#3 According to Faulkner is Mrs.McE entirely blameless for the situation she is in

#4 Is Bobbies relationship with Joe the first attempt by the author to link together outcast characters into a pseudo family

#5 Does the sickness Joe refers to about Bobbie indicate a larger belief on the nature of women as viewed by Joe Christmas in the novel?

Chapter 9 Level One:

● Who decided that Christmas has been beaten enough?● Why on page 204 is Throne capitalized?● How much of Mrs. McEachern’s money did Joe

take?● What sin does McEachern believe Joe is

committing?● Where is the dance being held?

Chapter 9 Level Two:

● How do Bobbie’s final comments to Joe affect his self-perception?

● Why does Joe think that him and Bobbie are going to get married?

● Are McEachern’s rageful actions associated with purity or that of internal setbacks?

● How does Faulkner’s diction add to the momentum of the text?

● How are Christmas and Mr. McEachern similar?

Chapter 9 Level Three:

● According to Faulkner, is Joe’s reaction to McEachern’s presence at the dance logical or illogical? Why?

● According to Faulkner, is McEachern’s reaction to Joe logical or Illogical? Why?

● According to Faulkner is Joe’s reaction to hitting McEachern justified ? (Should he be so enthused?)

● Is it relevant to Christmas whether or not Mr. McEachern has been killed?

● What are the advantages and disadvantages of Bobbi’s relationship with Max and Mame?

Chapter 10: Level One Questions

● Did the group of people that beat Joe up take his money?

● How much time elapsed while Joe wandered around from town to town?

● What occupations did Joe have during this period?

● Where did Joe live with a significant other for several years?

● What is the definition of acquiescing?

Chapter 10: Level Two Questions

● What is the relationship between Joe Christmas and the women he lived with for several years?

● Why did Faulkner have Joe Christmas enlist and then desert the Army?

● What evidence suggests that Joe C. doesn’t like to stay in one place for very long?

● What causes Joe Christmas to ask about and subsequently enter Mrs. Burden’s house in Jefferson?

● What are the reasons for Joe settling down in Jefferson as opposed to traveling around for several more years?

Chapter 10: Level Three Questions

● Is it illogical that Joe Christmas did not attack or assault Mrs. Burden in her kitchen given his previous record involving women?

● What are the advantages of Joe Christmas having someone to live with like he has in Mrs. Burden?

● Is Mrs. Burden a solution to Joe’s anger problems?

● Given Joe Christmas’ track record, isn’t it unusual that he eats Mrs. Burden’s food after not trusting women (and their food) for so long?

● Is it logical that Joe and Mrs. Burden had a sexually relationship from the very beginning or was it something that developed over time?

Level One Questions1. Whose point of view is this part of the

story from? 2. How old was Joanna Burden when she sat

and told Joe about her family history?3. Is Christmas ashamed of the overalls?

Why or why not?4. Who killed Joanna’s brother and

grandfather?5. When did this happened?

Level Two Questions1. Why are most of the women in this book so

subordinate towards the men?2. Is she really pregnant or is she pretending to be so

Joe Christmas has to stay with her and not leave her?3. Do you believe that Joe was beginning to have

feelings for Joanna at this time, or just using her for pleasure?

4. Is there a difference between having African American blood versus Spanish blood in this time period? Why is blood so important?

5. What is the relationship of Joanna and Joe at this time?

Level Three Questions1. Is segregation altogether bad? Or is keeping two sides who

don’t like each other to begin with away from each other beneficial to the rest of the community?

2. Seeing how Joanna was with African Americans during that time period, why do you think she moved to the South where it wasn’t accepted instead of the North?

3. Why did Calvin Burden’s first marriage take longer than his second (which took a day)? What is the cause for such a difference?

4. Does the nature versus nurture debate have revelance in this chapter? In this book?

5. What do you think was the reason to see Joanna’s family past?

Chapter 12

Level 1 Questions

1. How does Christmas describe his feelings about entering into the second phase of his relationship with Miss Burden?

2. What is the definition of an avatar?3. During the third phase of the relationship what does Miss

Burden want Christmas to do?4. What did Joe have in his hands as he flagged down the

approaching car?5. What was Christmas afraid Joe might do?

Level 2 Questions

1. “Overhead the slow constellations wheeled, the stars of which he had been aware for thirty years and not one of which had any name to him or meant anything at all by shape or brightness or position.” What conclusions can be drawn from this quote?

2. “ I will deny all the thirty years that I have lived to make me what I chose to be.” What does Christmas mean? What did he choose to be?

3. What causes Christmas to feel the need to hide his whisky selling from Miss Burden?

4. What are the reasons as to why Miss Burden told Christmas she was pregnant?

5. How does Miss Burden’s corruption affect their relationship?

Level 3 Questions1. Is it proven that Joanna Burden had plans to kill Joe

Christmas and then herself?

2. Was Joe Christmas acting completely in self defense when he killed Joanna? If so, was it ethical for Joe Christmas to kill Miss Burden the way he did?

3. What was the best way the conflict with Joanna and Joe could have been resolved?

4. Was it ethical for Joanna to push her religious views and career ideas onto Joe Christmas?

5. Is it proven that Miss Burden was actually pregnant? Was it a lie? Miscarriage?

Chapter 13Level One:

● What day of the week did the fire occur?● What is the definition of catafalque (pg 294)?● Who reveals that “two white men live” in the cabin behind

the Burden house?● Who does the countryman see once he has arrived at the

scene of the crime?● What has become of Miss Burden?

Chapter 13Level Two:

● What results from Brown coming and claiming that he deserves the reward for telling them about Christmas?

● What is the relationship between the murder and the town’s racial prejudice?

● How are the assumptions made about the murder correspond to the energy that is generated from the south?

● What is the relationship between the people of Jefferson and Miss Burden?

● How is the Sheriff similar to Byron?

Chapter 13 Level 3:

● Why does Byron bring Lena to Brown's shack?● Why does Hightower attack Byron about his decision to take Lena

to the shack?● Is it right for Byron to be helping Lena? Are his intentions right?● According to Faulkner what are the advantages and

disadvantages of being an outsider amongst this society/community?

● Is the murder of Miss Burden relevant to Lena and her search for Lucas Burch?

Chapter 14 Level 1 Questions

1.At what time did a “Negro” wake the Sheriff at his own home?

2. What message was the “Negro” giving the Sheriff?

3. Who was the news about? What is ironic about him being in a “Negro Church” ?

4.What is the definition of Pallid, and how is this of importance on page 325?

5. At what time did the Sheriff actually show up at the Church?

Chapter 14 Level 2 Questions

1.Was Byron Bunch justified in lying to Lena about Joe Browns situation and why or why not?

2. “This time the Sheriff did not even kick them.” (pg.330), what is this a sign of? Do you think the Sheriff has lost hope of catching Christmas? Explain.

3. When Christmas asked the women what day it was she actually answered his question, does this hold significance?

4. Faulkner portrays Christmas as a savage, obsessed not with food but with eating; surviving, how is this important?

5. How does the lamp in the church similar to the lamp Christmas sees in the farmhouse kitchen?

Chapter 14 Level 3 Questions1.Is the presence of light relevant or irrelevant? Why?

2. “She knows me. She has got the word.” (pg.332) do you believe for a moment that Christmas may have wanted to be caught? What other than finding out what day it was, would his purpose have been?

3.What is the significance of the quote: “ ‘That was all, for thirty years. That didn’t seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty year.’ ” (pg.331)?

4. Does the fact that Christmas finds himself wearing “Negro Shoes” create a sense of irony? Why or why not?

5. What is the effect of white men invading a “Negro Church”?

15 - Level One Questions1.Who captures Christmas?2.What is the name of the town that

Christmas was captured in?3. Is Uncle Doc the janitor for the

orphanage?4.Who is Milly? Is Christmas her child?5. What did Mrs. Hines where when she goes

to see Christmas?

15 -Level Two Questions151. Why do you think that Christmas let himself be

caught and not try and run away from the law?2. What do you think was Doc Hines initial reaction

when he found out Christmas “the murderer” was his grandchild that he abandoned?

3. Why does no one know Mrs. Hines? why does she, until now, stay inside her house and stay away from the town people?

4. Do you think that there was a purpose of Mrs. Hines looking at Joe’s face?

5. What kind of relationship do you think that Mr. and Mrs. Hines have?

15 -Level Three Questions1. What part does Calvin Burden, the son of a young minister,

plays with the rest of the characters and why he is included?

2. What do you think was Faulkners purpose of having Doc Hines, the most evil, racist character in the book the grandfather of a half mixed child?

3. Why did Mrs. Hines allow Doc Hines to steal her grandchild if she knew it wasn’t right?

4. What are the advantages of the readers knowing who Christmas’ grandparents are? What’s the benefit of knowing some of Christmas’ lineage?

5. Do you think that it is logical that Mrs. Hines is the only one that can subdue Mr. Hines?

Chapter 16: Level One Questions

• What is the definition of the word: “morganatic”?

• What is an example of Doc Hines hatred for women?

• What is the definition of the word: “chanceso.”

• Who did Byron bring to Hightower to see if the could fix their issue?

• Why does Hightower tell the Hines to get out of his house?

Chapter 16:Level Two Questions

• What is the issue that Hightower has with standing up for Christmas?

• What are the reasons for Milly’s death?

• What evidence is given that Doc Hines was actually the janitor at Christmas’s orphanage?

• What evidence is offered that Milly’s baby daddy was not African American?

• Why did Doc Hines shoot Milly’s baby daddy?

Chapter 16: Level Three Questions

• What is the best solution to Hightower dealing with Byron and the favor that he asks of him?

• Is it logical that Mrs. Hines wants to see her grandson before he dies?

• Since Doc Hines is a radical Christian is it illogical that he thought Milly to be a whore since she became pregnant out of wedlock?

• Since Doc Hines is so strict on Milly, and perhaps even abusive towards her, is it logical that she ran away from home?

• Since Hightower knows that if he helps Christmas, Byron will ultimately stay in town with Lena, is it logical that he doesn’t want to help Christmas because it would help Byron out in the end?

Chapter 17: Level One Questions

• On what day was Lena’s child born?

• Who does Mrs. Hines keep referring to Lena and her baby as?

• What does Hightower learn when he goes to the mill?

• Who goes to town to find a doctor to help deliver the baby?

• What is the definition of querulous?

Chapter 17: Level Two Questions

• What is the relationship between Lena Grove and Byron Bunch?

• What causes Byron to leave Jefferson?

• Why does Hightower subconsciously say “Poor Boy” about Byron on page 406? Is he really feeling sympathy for him?

• What conclusions can be drawn from Mrs. Hines delusional acts?

• Is it possible that Lena feels guilty for rejecting Byron’s proposal of marriage?

Chapter 17: Level Three Questions

• Is describing Lena’s childbirth as manger-like, in comparison to Jesus Christ’s birth, logical and applicable?

• Is it logical that Lena hasn’t named her child yet possibly because Byron wasn’t there?

• Was it Byron’s place to go search for Joe Brown to tell him about his baby?

• In this chapter, could Hightower be portrayed as a father figure for Lena?

• The way Doc Hines looked at Lena when he was sneaking out of the cabin, was it more of a threatening or submissive look? An understanding or she’ll know the consequences if she tells?

Chapter 18Level 1:

1. Did Joe Brown actually send money to Lena so she could come see him?

2. Does Joe stay with Lena to assist with the care of their child?

3. Who wins in the fight between Brown and Byron?

Level 2:

1. Why does Byron decide to leave and try to start a new life in a new town?

2. How does Joe Brown react to seeing Lena and the new baby in the cabin and why does he react like this?

3. Why does Joe Brown actually think that the sheriff would ever give him the reward money for Christmas after he escapes both prison and the responsibility of caring for his child and Lena?

Level 3:

1. Why does Byron have such a conscience about being the hero for “another man’s woman?” Why does it seem so wrong to him even though Joe Brown abandoned Lena?

2. Why were Joe Brown’s actions after seeing his child so significant? Why do you think he acted this way?

3. We know Byron tends to be a generally passive and quiet man and someone who doesn’t like to get in trouble. So why does he provoke a fight with Brown? Do you think that even afterward that he thought it was a good idea?

Chapter 19Level 1:

1. How many times was Christmas shot?

2. Does Hightower lie to hive Christmas an alibi for the night Burden was murdered?

3. Who puts the Hineses on a train back to Mottstown?

Level 2:

1. Why does it not really matter that Percy Grimm shot and brutally killed Christmas without capturing his and taking him in?

2. Is it comforting to either of the Hineses that Christmas is dead or that his body is coming back to Mottstown with them now?

3. Why does Grimm kill Christmas in such an aggressive way? Why does Grimm have this mindset?

Level 3:

1. Why do you think Mr. Hines is satisfied with the fate of Christmas, considering the fate of his daughter Milly as well?

2. IS the way Christmas was killed appropriate for the severity of his crimes? Why or why not?

3. Who do you think, if anyone, will be the most distraught by Christmas’s death? Why?

Chapter 20Level One:

● When did the son return home from war (year)?● At what age did he find the frock coat?● Who joined the Civil War, but never fought, and became a

field surgeon?● How old is Hightower’s father when he is born? ● Which views did Hightower and his family disagree on?

Chapter 20Level 2:

● How does finding the frock coat affect the boy?● What does it mean that Hightower’s parents and black caretaker were

“phantoms?”● What are the similarities between McEachern and Hightower’s

grandfather?● Why is Hightower afraid to ask his father about his grandfather? ● How is Hightower’s relationship with his family similar to his

relationship with the townspeople of Jefferson

Chapter 20Level Three:

● Is Hightower’s worship of his grandfather good or bad?● Is Hightower’s history applicable to the story as a whole?● According to Faulkner, should Hightower feel remorse for focusing more

on his family history than his profession as a minister?● Is it reasonable to conclude the Hightower’s wife gave him a platform in

the community ? ● Is the relationship between Hightower and his grandfather relevant to his

social standing in Jefferson?

Chapter 21

1. Who did the furniture dealer pick up on the side of the road?

2. At the very end of chapter 21 was Lena surprised when she found Byron on the side of the road waiting for her? Why or why not?

3. At this point how old was the baby? 4. To where was the man in the truck driving?5. Where did they all stay during the night?

Level 1 Questions

Level 2 Questions1. How is the perspective of the narrator in chapter 21 different

from all of the others?2. “And he still had that look on his face like he pretty near had his

mind made up to do whatever it was he was desperate to do” What does this mean? What is Byron desperate to do?

3. Why does the book open and close with Lena?4. What is the significance of the book ending with a couple who

have a seemingly happy and untainted relationship, the first of its kind seen in the book?

5. How has Lena changed throughout the book, and how has our idea of Lena changed after seeing her treat Byron like a dog?

Level 3 Questions

1. Is it proven that Lena and Byron end up together or is this a false assumption due to the narrator's opinion?

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Lena rejecting Byron?

3. Will Byron deciding to continue on with Lena and the baby be effective or ineffective in showing Lena that he feels for her?

4. Will it be effective for Byron to continue his life with Lena or is he getting himself into a bigger mess?

5. How should Byron go about solving his broken relationship with Lena, and do you think a solution can be reached?