50 pages 1 hour read

A. S. A. Harrison

The Silent Wife

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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Essay Topics

1.

How does the third-person narrative demonstrate the limitations of each character’s ability to understand reality? Choose specific moments from the text where those limits become clear.

2.

How does The Silent Wife build narrative tension after revealing the climax in the first chapter?

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How does the alternating narrative perspective develop the theme of Tension between Perception and Reality?