Characters
The popular girl who has a crush on Connell
Who is Rachel?
The genre of the book
What is novel?
"I'm smarter than everyone" (p.2)
Who is Marianne?
A character who blushes a lot
Who is Connell?
The writer Sally Rooney's nationality
What is Irish?
The name of Connell's two closest friends
What are Eric and Rob?
"She feels holy like a shrine" (a quotation from the book describing how Marianne feels when she is with Connell) uses this poetic device
What is a simile?
"She's actually a very sensitive person" (p.8)
Who is Lorraine?
The character who saves Marianne's face in the nightclub
Who is Karen?
Marianne and Connell's last names
What are Sheridan and Waldron?
The book is not strictly chronological because it uses this device a lot
What are flashbacks?
"I would never pretend not to know you" (p.27)
Who is Marianne?
Name four terms related to "facework"
What are: frontstage/backstage, give face, lose face, out of face
Two major themes in the book
What are, e.g.: growing up, identity, class, love/friendship
What Marianne applies for in her college application for Trinity University in Dublin
What is History and Politics?
The type of narrator and point of view used in the book
What is 3rd person narrator with point of view shifting between Connell and Marianne?
"You're always making me do such weird things." (p.35)
Who is Connell?
The title of the man who invented the concept of "facework"
What is sociologist?
The fictional name of the town where Marianne and Connell grow up in the real Count Sligo
What is Carricklea?
The name of Marianne's brother and mom
What are: Alan and Denise?
The book's epigraph (quotation in the front of the book) is by this British author and taken from her novel Daniel Deronda (1876)
Who is George Eliot (synonym for Mary Ann Evans)?
"Great dress, very sexy" (p.37)
Who is Eric?
The man who invented the concept of "facework" (first and last name)
Who is Erving Goffman?
The title of another Sally Rooney book
What are Conversations with Friends (2017) or Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021)?