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Essay Topic 1
Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Great Circle do so for the present novel? How or how not?
Essay Topic 2
A significant amount of readerly attention focuses on a quotation taken from Marian Graves’s logbook: “Circles are wondrous because they are endless. Anything endless is wondrous. But endlessness is torture, too. I knew the horizon could never be caught but still chased it. What I have done is foolish; I had no choice but to do it” (7). Does the novel substantiate the assertions of the quotation? How or how not?
Essay Topic 3
Notably, Wallace is a painter—and Jaime becomes one later. How might the story be different were Wallace and Jaime in a different line of work or artists in another medium? Why might it be different in those...
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