![]() ![]() What are some of the qualities of Italian life that contrast most sharply with American culture? Which aspects of Italian life did Frances and Ed find it important to incorporate into their own lives? Which aspects would you have been drawn to?Ħ. What makes Mayes's writing style effective? How does her particular voice make her descriptions come alive? What images did you find to be particularly striking?ĥ. Discuss some examples of this, both in her life and in your own.Ĥ. "The house is a metaphor for the self," Frances Mayes writes. Why is the purchase of her house in Italy so qualitatively different from her other experiences with home ownership?ģ. Mayes writes of the traumatic experience of selling one house and purchasing another on various occasions in the United States. In what ways does that question symbolize how the book came about? What does it say about Frances Mayes's life in Italy, and about her life in general?Ģ. "What are you growing here?" is the first line of Under the Tuscan Sun. ![]()
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