1. What does the story's narrator have against poor relatives?

2. What can you deduce of the narrator's personality from what he says while he tells the story? Is he a nice person?

3. Why does Aunt Florrie not realize that she is unwanted by the family?

4. Why does the family put up with her staying on Christmas year after year?

5. When did you guess what the mysterious Christmas card from Aunt Florrie was all about?

6. If a family cannot fly off to New Zealand for Christmas, how might it escape unwanted relatives?

7. Why does the family in "Aunt Florrie" fear that Aunt Florrie has come back from the dead? Why does such a fear grow on them?

8. What is the point of having televisions in nearly every room? Why should almost every television have a VCR? What would make a VCR dangerous to have in a...