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Summary
Chapters 1-3
Chapters 4-6
Chapters 7-9
Chapters 10-12
Chapters 13-15
Chapters 16-18
Chapters 19-21
Chapters 22-24
Chapters 25-27
Chapters 28-30
Chapters 31-33
Chapters 34-36
Chapters 37-39
Chapters 40-42
Chapters 43-45
Chapters 46-48
Chapters 49-51
Chapters 52-54
Chapters 55-57
Chapters 58-60
Chapters 61-63
Chapters 64-66
Chapters 67-69
Chapters 70-72
Chapters 73-75
Chapters 76-78
Chapters 79-81
Chapters 82-84
Chapters 85-92
Character Analysis
Themes
Symbols & Motifs
Important Quotes
Essay Topics
“Henry Ford and Abner Shutt are foils for one another.” Choose three passages from The Flivver King that support this claim. Analyze each passage, explaining in what way Ford and Shutt are foils for one another and the significance of this relationship for the novel.
Compare and contrast the three women who marry into the Shutt family: Milly, Annabelle, and Dell. What are their lives like? What does each woman value? What views, if any, do they have about the labor struggle and how did they come to hold those views? With whom do you think Sinclair sympathizes most?
Why do you think Sinclair chose to use third-person omniscient narration for this story? What would have been different, had he chosen to use a first-person narrator? If you had to rewrite the novel, using one of its characters as a first-person limited narrator, whom would you choose and why? What would be gained or lost by changing the novel’s narrative strategy in this way?