Use context to determine the meaning of the word discursive as it is used in “Home.” Write your definition of discursive here and explain how you found it. ANSWER:

In the story, it states, "And such light and discursive thoughts as visit the brain only when it is weary and resting began straying through Yevgeny Petrovitch's head..." (p.10). The word discursive is used here to describe all the different thoughts in the narrator's head. Therefore, discursive meaning is digressing from subject to subject.