![]() ![]() ![]() What if she'd turned down the lightly flung invitation and went about her life, thudding obliviously along like a drunk person, a blind person, a moron, someone who thinks that the small packet of happiness she carries is enough." Later, when Jules is reading Ethan and Ash's Christmas letter, she says, "Their lives were much too different now for Jules to have kept up a sustained level of envy. Early in the novel, Wolitzer writes of Jules, "What if she'd said no? she liked to wonder afterward in a kind of strangely pleasurable, baroque horror. Jules is one of the main characters in the novel, and one of her biggest struggles is contentment and envy."The Interestings" is divided into three parts: part I, "Moments of Strangeness " part II, "Figland " and part III, "The Drama of the Gifted Child." Do you think these titles or divisions are particularly meaningful to the story?. ![]()
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