3. Early in the novel, a woman who cleans rooms at a brothel describes the remnants of love in vivid detail. In many respects, much of the novel seems to link love to loss. How are the sacrifices that are made by men different from those made by women? Are the losses suffered by men more sentimental? Explore how GGM differentiates the loss associated with love.
4. Select another passage or series of passages and analyze GGM’s tone, and the impact of that tone on the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not use the same passage as the last essay!
5 . (CREATIVE OPTION! GASP!] Find a 1-2 page section of Love in the Time of Cholera and re-write it in the narrative voice used by Leo Tolstoy in Resurrection or find a 1-2 page section of Resurrection and re-write it in the narrative voice used by GGM in Love in the Time of Cholera.
