Compare and contrast the characters of Porter, Matthew, and Alpha, especially focusing on how they both embody and resist patriarchal ideas.

The novel is narrated by a first-person narrator who has omniscient access to the protagonist. Could Frankie be this narrator? Support or refute this possibility using evidence from the text.

Zada argues that “[the] institutions of male supremacy only have real power over you if you buy into that notion” (202). Does the novel support this view?