1. What is Dillard's purpose in this essay beyond entertaining readers? 

2. What does the pursuer represent for the narrator? How and why do her feelings towards him change after the chase is over? 

3. Why does Dillard refer to the "chewing out" as "redundant"?

4. There are many comments related to gender and expectations in this story, which took place in the 1950s. Are any of these assumptions and experiences still relevant today? 

"The Chase"