Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:
• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)
Also consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Morality Tale:
1. What's wrong—or what does Pan find wrong—with her marriage? Why has she become dissatisfied? Is her dissatisfaction well-grounded?
2. Pan doesn't seem capable of understanding why she's attracted to Richard. Why is she?
3. Although drawn to one another, Pan and Richard restrain their physical involvement. Does that make any difference in terms of whether they are committing adultery? Are their luncheons, letter exchanges, etc. immoral?
4. Do you find Pan a sympathetic character. How would you describe her—is she funny, wise, witty, mean-spirted, irritating or tiresome?
5. What does Pan come to realize on the trip to Chicago...and why?
6. Do you like the book's ending. Is it convincing...or do you find it a bit manipulative and, perhaps, too pat?
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)