What motivates Drusilla’s ultimate betrayal of Winifred? Do her actions represent a successful claim of feminist agency or a final submission to the patriarchal logic of self-preservation? Explain.

How does Winifred’s narratorial tone and perspective challenge the notion of character sympathy? Did you feel the urge to read on her story knowing what her intentions were? Why or why not?

How do the systemic conditions of the Victorian world Winifred lives in resonate with contemporary social conditions? Is Winifred’s world a far cry from the world today?

Discuss the novel’s use of literary pastiche. What are the elements Feito borrows from different genres and how does she use them to heighten or subvert the assumed genre of the novel?

How does Winifred’s predatory nature challenge the models of female survival and morality presented in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)?

Considering the novel’s imagery of class-driven consumption, how does the novel link the concept of class to the appetite towards violence?

What impact does the setting of Ensor House have on the characters’ behaviors? Do its features engender violence, or does it tap into a latent potential they already possess?

Analyze how Victorian Psycho’s historical setting complicates contemporary arguments about the political expression of female rage in fiction.