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Summarized & Analyzed: "What Maisie Knew"
Summarized & Analyzed: "What Maisie Knew"
Summarized & Analyzed: "What Maisie Knew"
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“What Maisie Knew” has been very widely discussed in the academic circles. The book is highly admired for its technical proficiency and its judgment of a negligent and damaged contemporary society.

The novel primarily explores the theme of knowledge and education through the upbringing of the central and titular character Maisie. The book very extensively describes how a young girl Maisie observes the irresponsible behavior of all the adults she has to live with.

Besides the central theme of knowledge and education, family, morality, relationships, childhood, social class, memory and jealousy are some of the other themes that the author explores very intelligently.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRaja Sharma
Release dateMay 29, 2018
ISBN9780463394410
Summarized & Analyzed: "What Maisie Knew"

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    Introduction

    About What Maisie Knew

    Plot Overview

    About Major Characters

    Complete Summary

    Critical Analysis

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    Introduction

    Student World is a group of college lecturers and professors. We understand how high school and college students feel when they are given to read literature, especially classics. They generally get lost in the long and complex sentences, a parade of characters, and shifting narratives, thus making it difficult for them to make head from tail.

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    About What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew by Henry James was first published in the year 1897. The book was initially published as a serial, but in the same year it was published as a complete book.

    The story primarily revolves around a young girl. Maisie is the young daughter of the divorced parents. She is the protagonist of the novel. The story describes how she grows up to be a young girl and then a more mature sensible adolescent.

    Since her parents live separately, Maisie is somewhere between the two and her upbringing is quite difficult. Her parents want to take revenge on each other, and both of them use Maisie as a tool to take revenge.

    Eventually, she is left completely alone. She finds herself in a dilemma whether she should take the side of her father or her mother. She must choose which of her parents she wants to care for her.

    The book has been one of the most analyzed and discussed in the study circles in the United States. It is definitely a very highly influential piece of American literature.

    Several scholars and critics have analyzed What Maisie Knew during different time periods. The book is also of academic importance and it is on the reading lists of several schools, colleges, and educational institutions around the world.

    The critics and scholars mostly concentrate on Maisie’s psychological growth. They often point to Maisie as a paradigm of Freudian developmental psychology. The character of Maisie is often discussed in the classroom situation by the students of English literature.

    In the year 2012, What Maisie Knew was made into a successful movie.

    Plot Overview

    Maisie, a young girl, is the protagonist of the novel. As the story begins, it is revealed that her parents, Ida and Beale, have decided to take a divorce because their marriage has not been good.

    At the beginning of the story, we learn that both of them often quarrel with each

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