Content Warning: This section contains discussions of suicide.

Consider how the novel pairs current events with flashbacks. Choose two such instances and explain the connection between the past and present events and how their juxtaposition develops Eudora as a character.

Montgomery the cat experiences a similar transformation to Eudora. Why did Annie Lyons include this element? What does it add to the narrative?

Eudora wants to control her death in large part because she couldn’t control the events that unfolded in her life. Does the novel suggest Eudora was truly as helpless as she perceives? If so, how does this contribute to the novel’s overall meaning? If not, in what way?