58 pages • 1 hour read
Tess GuntyThe Rabbit Hutch
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Essay Topics
What do you make of Jack’s character? What bearing does Gunty’s transition to a first-person point of view have on your opinion?
What role do the medieval mystics play in Blandine’s experience? To what extent does she succeed in becoming one of them by the end of the novel?
Do a close reading of Joan’s character. How does her transformation throughout the novel speak to Gunty’s larger point of intersecting lives at The Rabbit Hutch?
How does Gunty relate the theme of orphaned kids to that of an orphaned economy? In what ways has the Zorn Automobile factory behaved like an irresponsible parent?
How does Gunty present Yager and Blandine’s affair? In your opinion, how convincingly does she frame it as a product of wider structural forces?
What role does the social conditioning of gender play in the dynamics of Apartment C4? Why are the boys compelled to commit violence?
What do Moses and Blandine’s narratives have in common? How do their journeys toward transcendence conflict and intersect?
Discuss Gunty’s depiction of the Chastity Valley. What does this place symbolize, and why is it so important as a counterpoint to the destruction in the novel?
How does Gunty treat the theme of the body? Why is this such a problematic area for many of her characters?
What is the significance of animals, both alive and dead, in Gunty’s novel? How does this tie in with the theme of intersecting lives in the narrative?
