- On page 41 of Lucy, She turns to Mariah and says,"All along I have been wondering how you got to be
the way you are. Just how it was you got to be the way you are." And in the following paragraph, Lucy asks again,
"How do you get to be that way?".
What is the novel's answer to Lucy's question? -- 1 paragraph
- On page 97, Mariah says to Lucy, "You are a very angry person, aren't you?". Lucy's reply is: "Of
course I am. What do you expect?".
According to the novel, why is Lucy an angry person, what did Mariah expect from Lucy, and why should
she have not been surprised by Lucy's anger?
- At the end of "Cold Heart," Lucy says: "For ten of the my twelve years, half of my life, I had been
mourning the end of a love affair, perhaps the only true love in my whole life I would ever know" (132).
Comment on the love affair Lucy references here, its origins, its characteristics, and its 'demise'. Do
touch on the language Lucy uses throughout passages that address her relationship with this person. You will need to consider the last chapter of the novel
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