57 pages 1 hour read

E. Lockhart

We Were Liars

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

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Part 4, Chapters 68-74

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 4: "Look, a Fire"

Part 4, Chapter 68 Summary

The Liars begin to imagine burning down Clairmont as punishment for the greedy, the normal, and the unkind.

Part 4, Chapter 69 Summary

Again in summer fifteen, Cady's mother complains that she gets nothing from Granddad even though Cady is the first child. She threatens to take Cady away. Granddad gives them all a lecture about hard work and the values of the family. He tells them they cannot expect financial security without working for it.

Part 4, Chapter 70 Summary

Back in summer seventeen, Cady is with the Liars, and she tells them she knows they set fire to Clairmont as an act of purification of the family. They saw the house as the seat of patriarchy.

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