Literary Significance and Criticism
- The novel was inspired by the story of soprano Olive Fremstad.
- Christopher Nealon has argued that Thea is more boyish than girlish. In the Panther Canyon episode, he links her rapport with Fred to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's theory of homosociality.
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