A TWO- PART EVENT:   INTRODUCING KATIE:

PART A:   Emotionally, KATIE’S world is locked in when the story places her in her home alone—no longer a wife or part of a couple: she is a widow but still feels married even after almost two years.  Katie realizes that if she ever expects to have a full and enriching life as a older single women, she has to give up her fantasy (or is it an obsession) that she is still Dalton’s wife and that his priorities should serve as her benchmark when making independent choices

Discussion questions:

1. Is it “normal” for a Katie to feel married more than two years after the death of her husband? 

2. Does the marriage end when a spouse/mate dies? 

3. If Katie gives up the emotion that she is still married:

      (a) what will she lose?

      (b) what will she gain?