Girl With a Pearl Earring

Griet¡¯s decision to marry Pieter is a sane and sensible one. Before that, she was living in a fantasy world. Do you agree?


Girl With a Pearl Earring, written by Tracy Chevalier, is a novel that follows the life-changing experiences of sixteen-year-old Griet, particularly accentuated over the two years of her serving as a maid for the Delft painter Vermeer. While Griet lives apart from her family, she struggles to deal with reality, yearnings of l...