Williams, ?The Girl With a Pimply Face?

Discussion questions: Williams, "The Girl With the Pimply Face" (first publ. 1938)

1. What kind of attitude does the narrator have toward the families on whom he makes house calls? How is he different from his fellow doctors?

2. The narrator admires the girl's straight, tough, self-protective assertiveness. He then learns from another doctor that she is supposedly notoriously promiscuous, maybe even a prostitute. How do you think we are supposed to react to her?

3. What or whom do you think the narrator is speaking of when he says inwardly "Hell! God damn it. The sons of bitches. Why do these things have to be?" (202R)?

4. What did medicine gain and what did it lose when doctors and nurses stopped making house calls?