Girl With a Pearl Earring

One of the most salient features of the narration in this book is the continual use of similes and metaphors to establish visual imagery. These examples of figurative language not only create a...

Griet is decidedly different from other girls her age in this novel. First, instead of styling her hair, she always keeps it hidden and tucked into a full covering. Some other girls also wear head...

The primary religious differences portrayed are between Protestantism, represented by Griet and her family, and Catholicism, represented by Vermeer and his family. Vermeer had actually converted to...

Yes: both Griet and Maria Thins have an appreciation of art, especially Vermeer's, that his own wife Catharina clearly lacks. Catharina is physically clumsy and is not allowed in her husband's...

Power struggles are everywhere in Girl With a Pearl Earring, but what's notable is that no one ever enjoys complete power or control over anyone else. This includes the humble housemaid Griet. In...

The core of the explanation of this book is the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism and the conflict between the working class and the upper class. Vermeer was a renowned Dutch painter...

Vermeer, a converted Catholic, marries his wife, Catharina, and lives in the home of his mother-in-law in what is called the Papist Corner. There are two aspects of his life that I think...

Although I am a bit confused by what you mean when you say "main idea relationships," you are right to assume the main idea of Girl With a Pearl Earring is intimately connected with relationships!...

'Speed of Sound' by English band Coldplay might be a good song for the movie 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' because a) it was a very popular download and b) it has a very mysterious quality to it -...

Near the beginning of the first section of the book, titled "1664," just one aspect of Griet's behavior irritates Catharina and permanently causes the older woman to dislike her. It's when Griet...

Interesting novel by Tracy Chevalier! Girl With A Pearl Earring is a painting by Johannes Vermeer, a 17th Century Dutch painter. In the novel, Chevalier hypothesizes that Vermeer's servant girl,...

Tracy Chevalier’s 1999 novel Girl with Pearl Earring represents the author’s speculation regarding the identity of the model for Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer’s, whose own life remains clouded in...

The protagonist of Tracy Chevalier's novel Girl With a Pearl Earring is a sixteen-year-old girl (the one mentioned in the title, of course), so the story was presumably written with a young adult...

In Tracy Chevalier’s 1999 novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, class distinctions play a very large role in human relationships. Griet, the 16-year-old girl at the center of Chevalier’s story, which...

Griet is still having trouble adjusting to her new life as a maid. Life in the Vermeer household is exhausting; Griet feels constantly tense and serious in a house where everything is so strange...

According to the author, the pearl earring "is important as a symbol because it represents the world Griet gets drawn into and ultimately rejected from." Her father's blindness leads to her...

What is so fascinating about this novel is the way that the author takes a real life painting, Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," and imagines the story behind it and in particular, the life of...

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1. Did Vermeer love Griet? They had a rather special relationship, and it is obvious that he did give her special attention, but what were his true feelings? Did he just think that she was...

Griet is the 16 year old girl in the portrait Johannes Vermeer is the painter (in the novel and real life) Catharina is Vermeer's wife (The rest of these are characters who may not be "main" but...

Catharina finds motherhood a fulfilling experience from several points of views, but not because she, herself, would be contented with just being a mother. As a devout Catholic, she would have been...

The main way that this novel shows creativity helping humans is that it provides an escape from their everyday lives, which are sometimes stressful and unhappy. Griet, for example, has a life of...