Inevitable Changes of Group's Dynamics

In The Hunting Party, author Lucy Foley explores how life experiences have inevitably changed the dynamics of a group of old college friends. The change is forever, though the group tries to maintain the relationships forged years ago by mimicking old behaviors. The story line revolves around the group as they gather together at a hunting lodge in Scotland for a reunion.

The group includes Katie, Miranda and her husband Julien, Samira and her husband Giles, Nick and his boyfriend Bo, and Mark and his girlfriend Emma. Now as adults having gone through careers and marriages, individuals contributes new personal attitudes and feelings of inadequacy to the group's interactions and decision-making.

The way the men of the group interact is one example of the personal attitudes brought to the reunion. Some of the women comment that the men exhibit signs of homophobia...