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1. What is Smith doing at the very start of “Peonies’?

Smith is looking at tulips in the Jefferson Market Garden just before leaving New York.

2. What does Smith compare the way in which she packs her free time to at the start of “Peonies’?

Smith compares the way in which she packs her free time to the way a child packs sands for a sandcastle.

3. What does Smith say she does not need “a Freudian” to tell her regarding herself and the two other women her age staring at the tulips in Jefferson Market Garden?

Smith says she does not need a Freudian to tell her why three women in peri menopause would be drawn to this “gaudy symbol of fertility and renewal in the middle of a barren concrete metropolis” (3).

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