This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, including morality, manipulation and duality. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear and detailed 50-page...
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Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (Book Analysis)
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
978280801567750EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, including morality, manipulation and duality. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Patricia Highsmith
Presentation of Strangers on a Train
Summary of Strangers on a Train
Character study
Guy Haines
Charles Anthony Bruno
Analysis of Strangers on a Train
The thesis: can anyone become a murderer?
A cross between psychological thriller and detective story
Duality as the nature of everything
About Strangers on a Train
As its title suggests, Stranger on a Train tells the story of two men who meet by chance on a train. Charles Anthony Bruno, a confident psychopath, tells his new acquaintance, the promising architect Guy Haines, that they should exchange murders as they each have somebody they want to get rid of and would stand little change of getting caught, as they would have no apparent connection to their victims. What follows is a tense tale of manipulation, obsession and guilt as the two men’s lives become increasingly entangled.
Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel, and was first published in 1950. The following year, it was adapted into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, catapulting the author to public attention.
About Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer who is known in particular for her psychological thrillers, such as the five-novel series based on the machinations of the con artist Tom Ripley. Her work often explores the themes of morality, identity and guilt. A number of Highsmith’s novels have been successfully adapted for film: Strangers on a Train was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, Carol (previously published pseudonymously as The Price of Salt) was made into an Academy Award-nominated 2015 film, and The Talented Mr. Ripley was adapted and directed by Anthony Minghella in 1999.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s content and main themes, including morality, manipulation and duality. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Patricia Highsmith
Presentation of Strangers on a Train
Summary of Strangers on a Train
Character study
Guy Haines
Charles Anthony Bruno
Analysis of Strangers on a Train
The thesis: can anyone become a murderer?
A cross between psychological thriller and detective story
Duality as the nature of everything
About Strangers on a Train
As its title suggests, Stranger on a Train tells the story of two men who meet by chance on a train. Charles Anthony Bruno, a confident psychopath, tells his new acquaintance, the promising architect Guy Haines, that they should exchange murders as they each have somebody they want to get rid of and would stand little change of getting caught, as they would have no apparent connection to their victims. What follows is a tense tale of manipulation, obsession and guilt as the two men’s lives become increasingly entangled.
Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel, and was first published in 1950. The following year, it was adapted into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, catapulting the author to public attention.
About Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer who is known in particular for her psychological thrillers, such as the five-novel series based on the machinations of the con artist Tom Ripley. Her work often explores the themes of morality, identity and guilt. A number of Highsmith’s novels have been successfully adapted for film: Strangers on a Train was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, Carol (previously published pseudonymously as The Price of Salt) was made into an Academy Award-nominated 2015 film, and The Talented Mr. Ripley was adapted and directed by Anthony Minghella in 1999.application/pdf1
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This clear and detailed 50-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Patricia Highsmith
- Presentation of Strangers on a Train
- Summary of Strangers on a Train
- Character study
- Guy Haines
- Charles Anthony Bruno
- Analysis of Strangers on a Train
- The thesis: can anyone become a murderer?
- A cross between psychological thriller and detective story
- Duality as the nature of everything
About Strangers on a Train
As its title suggests, Stranger on a Train tells the story of two men who meet by chance on a train. Charles Anthony Bruno, a confident psychopath, tells his new acquaintance, the promising architect Guy Haines, that they should exchange murders as they each have somebody they want to get rid of and would stand little change of getting caught, as they would have no apparent connection to their victims. What follows is a tense tale of manipulation, obsession and guilt as the two men’s lives become increasingly entangled.
Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel, and was first published in 1950. The following year, it was adapted into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, catapulting the author to public attention.
About Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer who is known in particular for her psychological thrillers, such as the five-novel series based on the machinations of the con artist Tom Ripley. Her work often explores the themes of morality, identity and guilt. A number of Highsmith’s novels have been successfully adapted for film: Strangers on a Train was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, Carol (previously published pseudonymously as The Price of Salt) was made into an Academy Award-nominated 2015 film, and The Talented Mr. Ripley was adapted and directed by Anthony Minghella in 1999.
Product details
| ISBN | 9782808015677 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Collection | Brightsummaries.com |
| Format | |
| Pages | 50 |
| File size | 2.1 MB |
