Bellefleur | Ideas for Group Discussions
Readers of Bellefleur will need to suspend their disbelief and accept the supernatural, Gothic elements of the text. The novel is dense with subplots, so discussion might begin with some attention simply to what happens in the book.
1. The novel traces the history of the Bellefleur family in upstate New York. To what extent is this a successful family? To what extent is it doomed? Doomed by what? By whom?
2. Bellefleur is a novel of revenge. How important is the revenge theme in literature? In life? Can revenge expiate a wrong?
3. Jedediah comes down from his...
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