Waiting to Exhale | Ideas for Group Discussions
McMillan's fiction should provoke stimulating discussions because it engages themes of relationships and the problems that arise from them, among women, genders, and races. Waiting to Exhale could readily lend itself to enlightening discussion of the portrayed tug between white and African American cultures. The group might consider how issues of alienation might be resolved. Another good line to pursue is to what extent the novel's thematic elements and characters have a universal appeal.
Discussion groups may find it useful to compare Waiting to Exhale with a novel from an...
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