24 pages 48 minutes read

Roald Dahl

Skin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.

Essay Topics

1.

Analyze the crowd as a character. The crowd often functions as a singular unit in response to the gallery conflict. Determine the purpose of this choice and what it suggests about onlookers and otherness.

2.

Drioli’s emotional state and mental health are mentioned several times throughout the story. How are his emotions driven by physical needs and by the responses of others? How does memory affect his sense of stability and of self?

3.

The color yellow appears multiple times in the story. What does this color symbolize, and does the meaning change throughout the text?