What is the source of Andrea’s power? Why is she so bent on using it against the others-especially the women-in the house? What does she covet and care about?ġ3. What forces-familial, social, cultural-might explain why the two males, Cyril and Danny, are in various ways "excused…from all responsibility" about the lives and struggles of the girls and women in the house?ġ2. What are Maeve’s particular strengths and abilities? What are her priorities in life? What might explain her decision to stay at her unchallenging job or not pursue a committed romantic relationship or family of her own?ġ1. In what ways are Sandy and Jocelyn important to the various Conroys?ġ0.
When discussing Maeve’s diabetes, Danny suggests that, "the body had all sorts of means to deal with what it couldn’t understand." What does this mean? What is the relationship between physical health and emotional stress or trauma?ĩ. What might be the significance of Maeve receiving a box of matches and instruction for how to light a fire from her mother on her eighth birthday?Ĩ. What were the various effects of Elna Conroy leaving her husband and children? Was it preferable, as Maeve argues, to have spent some years with her and then lost her or, as Danny experienced, to never have known her? What are the particular emotional challenges of each experience?ħ. What explains why Elna Conroy abandoned her children? In what ways might such a profounddecision be justified or not? Why, as Maeve argues, are men who leave their families oftenjudged less harshly?Ħ. What are Fluffy’s various, evolving roles in the Dutch House? What is her overall influence on Maeve and Danny?ĥ. What is Cyril Conroy like? How might specific behaviors, routines, and decisions of his have influenced Maeve and Danny? Why was he "always more comfortable with his tenants than he was the people in his office or…in his house"? What was it about buildings that he loved so much?Ĥ.
What is the nature of the relationship between Maeve and Danny? What explains the longevity and power of their support and love for one another?ģ. What are the many and varied details of the Dutch House-rooms, stairways, architectural specifics, furniture, windows and doors, etc.? What mood or personality does each space or element possess? What is the complex, overall effect? What might Danny mean when he says,"the house was the story" or that it was "impossible"?Ģ.
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