47 pages 1 hour read

Mary Kubica

She's Not Sorry

Fiction | Memoir in Verse | Adult | Published in 2024

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Essay Topics

1.

Meghan Michaels is the first-person narrator of the novel. Craft an argument supporting the claim that Meghan is an unreliable narrator. Describe Meghan’s narrative voice and tone. Analyze Meghan’s representations of herself and others. What narrative events and revelations cast doubt on Meghan’s version of reality, and why?

2.

Meghan is a lonely, isolated character. Explore how Meghan’s past has inspired her alienation. How is her emotional despondency in the narrative present related to her decisions over the years prior? How does Meghan try to both deny and to resolve her loneliness, and why?

3.

Is Meghan a dynamic or a static character? Craft an argument supporting your claim. Consider how Meghan sees and describes herself at the start of the novel. Do her modes of self-expression and self-presentation change over time? How do the other characters see her over the course of the narrative, and do their impressions of her evolve? If so, how? If not, why?