Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat - by Roald Dahl

Discussion Questions:

1. Do you think Mr. Bixby knows about his wife’s relationship with the Colonel?
2. Mrs. Bixby’s plan for keeping the mink coat does not work. What would you have done in her position?
3. What do you think Mrs. Bixby will do, now that she knows her husband is unfaithful to her? What would you do?
4. Compare what we know of the two men in Mrs. Bixby’s life.
5. What do you think are the Colonel’s “personal reasons” for not seeing Mrs. Bixby any more?
6. Do you feel sympathy for Mrs. Bixby or do you feel she deserves what happens to her in the end?
7. Did you like the story? Why / why not?