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Part I (Pages 1 - 90)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Winman, Sarah. Still Life. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2021.

• This book was written from the third-person perspective and in the past tense.

• The first section is titled "Man as the Measure of All Things: 1944."

• Evelyn Skinner and Margaret "Someone" were staying at an albergo in the Tuscan hills in 1944, during WWII.

• Evelyn and Margaret were once briefly lovers, and they were late-middle-aged women.

• Margaret had shown up unannounced and Evelyn was not exactly happy to see her.

• Evelyn's father was a well-known British painter and her mother had Italian roots.

• Evelyn told Margaret a story of having met E.M. Forster as a young woman in Tuscany, and Margaret was jealous.

• Meanwhile, Ulysses Temper was a young British soldier in his twenties preparing to enter Florence with his leader, Captain...

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