Accueil
The Girl in White Gloves
LIBRAIRIE CARCAJOU
The Girl in White Gloves
De Librairie Carcajou
Current price: 35,00 $
Chargement de l'inventaire...
*Les informations sur le détaillant peuvent varier - pour confirmer la disponibilité du produit, le prix, l'expédition et les informations de retour, veuillez contacter LIBRAIRIE CARCAJOU
Readers Guide
The Girl in White Gloves by Kerri Maher
Questions for Discussion
1. The Girl in White Gloves alternates between the point of view of a young Grace and an older Grace. Why do you think the author decided to tell the story this way?
2. Grace and Kell had a lot in common in terms of the way they both strove to win the admiration of their complicated parents. Why do you think Kell fell apart so publicly, while Grace did not?
3. How do you think Grace’s family life affected her romantic choices, and vice versa?
4. What was the role of fashion in Grace Kelly’s life, and what was her attitude toward it? How did fashion help shape her internal character and public persona?
5. What do you think Grace loved so much about acting, on the stage and on-screen?
6. How many Grace Kelly movies have you seen? What is your favorite, and why?
7. Would you have made the same choices as Grace in 1956 when she married Prince Rainier, and again in 1962 when she stayed in the marriage after the Marnie disappointment?
8. If Grace had lived to an older age (she would be ninety-one in 2020), what do you think her life might have looked like?
9. If Grace had been born twenty or forty years later (she was born in 1929, so that means 1949 and 1969), how different do you think her life and choices might have been? Do you think today’s women are empowered to make different choices than the ones Grace made?
10. What struggles does Prince Rainier appear to be wrestling with that impact his relationship with Grace?
11. Before reading The Girl in White Gloves, if you knew anything about Grace from biographies or articles you’ve read, how did reading this fictional account of her interior life change or validate what you thought you knew about her? What surprised you about her life in this novel?
12. Many people look at movie stars and other celebrities as untouchables whose lives are virtually unrelatable; but as the epigraph suggests, Grace Kelly was very much a real woman, and wanted to be seen as such. Grace struggled with this paradox her whole life. What do you and the Grace Kelly portrayed in this novel have in common?
13. In many ways, Grace Kelly and the characters she played on-screen helped define midcentury American femininity. In what ways did her real life fulfill those norms, and in what ways did it defy them?
The Girl in White Gloves by Kerri Maher
Questions for Discussion
1. The Girl in White Gloves alternates between the point of view of a young Grace and an older Grace. Why do you think the author decided to tell the story this way?
2. Grace and Kell had a lot in common in terms of the way they both strove to win the admiration of their complicated parents. Why do you think Kell fell apart so publicly, while Grace did not?
3. How do you think Grace’s family life affected her romantic choices, and vice versa?
4. What was the role of fashion in Grace Kelly’s life, and what was her attitude toward it? How did fashion help shape her internal character and public persona?
5. What do you think Grace loved so much about acting, on the stage and on-screen?
6. How many Grace Kelly movies have you seen? What is your favorite, and why?
7. Would you have made the same choices as Grace in 1956 when she married Prince Rainier, and again in 1962 when she stayed in the marriage after the Marnie disappointment?
8. If Grace had lived to an older age (she would be ninety-one in 2020), what do you think her life might have looked like?
9. If Grace had been born twenty or forty years later (she was born in 1929, so that means 1949 and 1969), how different do you think her life and choices might have been? Do you think today’s women are empowered to make different choices than the ones Grace made?
10. What struggles does Prince Rainier appear to be wrestling with that impact his relationship with Grace?
11. Before reading The Girl in White Gloves, if you knew anything about Grace from biographies or articles you’ve read, how did reading this fictional account of her interior life change or validate what you thought you knew about her? What surprised you about her life in this novel?
12. Many people look at movie stars and other celebrities as untouchables whose lives are virtually unrelatable; but as the epigraph suggests, Grace Kelly was very much a real woman, and wanted to be seen as such. Grace struggled with this paradox her whole life. What do you and the Grace Kelly portrayed in this novel have in common?
13. In many ways, Grace Kelly and the characters she played on-screen helped define midcentury American femininity. In what ways did her real life fulfill those norms, and in what ways did it defy them?
Vous pourriez aussi aimer
Continuez à magasiner
