45 pages 1 hour read

Patricia Highsmith

Strangers On A Train

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

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Essay Topics

1.

Highsmith writes, "Any kind of person can murder" (204). In the context of Highsmith’s novel, do you agree?

2.

In Chapter 2, Guy glimpses himself in a mirror: "His eyes looked frightened, he thought, his mouth grim, and deliberately he relaxed." (28) Why do you think Guy is frightened?

3.

At one point Guy thinks, "There was the deed he had done, which in the hours alone in the house, in his room, he felt sat upon his head was like a crown, but a crown that no one else could see" (116). Explore the tragic elements of Strangers on a Train.

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