46 pages 1 hour read

Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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Essay Topics

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Bobbi cannot understand what Frances sees in Nick. Why is Frances drawn to him?

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Whose perspective is most likely to challenge Frances’s as a point-of-view character? How would our understanding of Frances change from this new perspective?

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Because Melissa is the character that the novel’s narrator, Frances, interacts with on the least regular basis, she is the character the reader gets to know the least. Were you sympathetic or unsympathetic to her? Did your opinion of her change throughout the novel or remain the same? Why?