42 pages 1 hour read

Laura Moriarty

The Chaperone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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Essay Topics

1.

What role does friendship play in The Chaperone, if any? Do Cora and Louise become friends?

2.

Moriarty uses The Age of Innocence as a foil to her novel’s storyline. What other works of literature could she have used in this way?

3.

Discuss the importance of family relationships, particularly parent-child relationships, in the novel. Is Cora justified in her statement that “Louise was the real orphan at the table” (280)?