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Every Vow You Break: A Novel
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Essay Topics
The novel’s non-linear opening chapters juxtapose Abigail’s present-day anxieties with flashbacks to formative moments in her past. How does Swanson use this narrative structure to construct a portrait of a protagonist uniquely vulnerable to Bruce’s manipulation?
Analyze Heart Pond Island’s physical characteristics. How do its tech-free isolation, unsettling decor, and history as a camp function as active agents in the systematic gaslighting of Abigail?
How does Every Vow You Break function as both an homage to and a critique of the Hitchcockian thriller, particularly Vertigo, by updating the genre’s tropes to comment on contemporary misogynistic ideologies?
