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Posted in The Girl with the Pearl Earring on Aug 30th, 2024
Griet leaves the Vermeer home to find who her true self can be. Marrying Pieter, becoming with child, and working at the meat hall, are all things Greit bears in her everyday life (Chevalier 187). Though she loves the simple little life she has created, a part of her will always be at the Vermeer […]
Posted in The Girl with the Pearl Earring on Aug 30th, 2024
Throughout this story a theme of life and death arises. I mostly realized this theme when reading about Agnes’s death and the birth of Franciscus. Griets town is struck with the plague and her sister, Agnes passes away. This shows a stark contrast in the plot line. As Griet’s family shrinks and loses a member, […]
Posted in The Girl with the Pearl Earring on Aug 30th, 2024
Tracy Chevalier’s Girl With a Pearl Earring accomplishes something with its writing that few authors have truly mastered. It exemplifies color and vivid imagery through words in such a way that we can practically see them in front of us. Chevalier uses language that—no pun intended—paints the scene before us. She dedicates such time and care […]
Posted in The Girl with the Pearl Earring on Aug 29th, 2024
Griet is a shy, quiet young lady who has many honest thoughts and deep feelings. A girl of short words and a strong work ethic. Greit becomes the maid for a wealthier family, wealthier than hers, yet poor in love, opposite of her family. From a young age, Griet had always been around art. She […]
Posted in The Girl with the Pearl Earring on Aug 28th, 2024
On her website, Tracy Chevalier describes the inspiration for Girl With A Pearl Earring: I was lying in bed one morning, idly contemplating a poster that hung across from me of the Vermeer painting Girl With a Pearl Earring. I’d had the poster since I was 19 and first discovered the painting. As I pondered […]
Posted in The Girl with the Pearl Earring on Aug 28th, 2024
In the beginning of Girl With A Pearl Earring we are introduced to Griet and her family, but the one who intrigued me most in referral to potential parallels and how class can influence interpretation was Griet’s father, a master painter of Delft tiles. Unlike Vermeer, who we can see throughout the story as a man […]
Posted in The Girl with the Pearl Earring on Aug 27th, 2024
When I look at the first third of Tracy Chevalier’s The Girl with a Pearl Earring, I see a masterclass in carefully crafting historical fiction. As a writer, it’s impossible not to appreciate Chevalier’s deliberate choices in setting, characterization, and narrative voice, all of which contribute to the novel’s immersive quality and ability to transport […]