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Angela CarterThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela CarterFiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Compare and contrast the two “beastly” husbands in “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” and “The Tiger’s Bride.” How are they similar, and how are they distinct?
“Puss in Boots” is the only story in the collection with a male protagonist. How did this narrative choice affect your reading of the story? Did a male narrator add anything to the story that a female narrator would not?
Many of the characters in the collection exist in a state of liminality—on the edge of life and death, or human and nonhuman. What do these liminal states show about the human experience?
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