Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring |
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Agnes artist attic aware behaviour Bildungsroman blue butcher camera obscura Catharina Catholic Chevalier's novel choice Church clean colour Cornelia Deborah Moggach Dutch Golden Age eight-pointed star eyes face family's father's tile fiction Franciscus Frans gaze gender Girl Griet and Vermeer Griet feels Griet learns Griet looks Griet meets Griet's family Griet's father hair household imagine important Johannes Vermeer Key Point Key Quotes Key Scene Lady Writing Leeuwenhoek lives Maertge maid main narrative Maria Thins master Mauritshuis means Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Montias mother narrator Oude Langendijck paint Griet painting of Griet parents Pearl Earring play Procuress role Ruijven Ruijven's wife seventeenth-century Dutch status story Susan Vreeland Tanneke tells Griet Themes & Issues things throughout the novel tile factory tile painter Tracy Chevalier transition from childhood van Ruijven Vermeer's paintings Vermeer's patron Vermeer's studio wanted watches women young woman