Answer the question about the story “on the gulls' road.” if this story were told using an entirely linear chronology, which event would come last? a. mrs. ebbling dies. b. the narrator boards the ship to genoa. c. the narrator draws a picture of mrs. ebbling. d. the young painter looks at the drawing of mrs. ebbling.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.