Harriet dubs the four women on the river cruise "the last girls." What does she mean by this name? How is The Last Girls an appropriate title for the novel?
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I Think I May Have A Screw Loose
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I saw my podiatrist yesterday. One part of my foot is still hurting (it's
been almost two months since the surgery). He thinks it may be one of the
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I took the name to mean that nowadays people wouldn't dream of calling us "girls" because it would be considered sexist or derogatory. At that time in the 60's it was normal to call young women girls, I guess.
Yeah, I agree with lorelei. It's also kind of funny that it was Harriet who commented on this, as she is - emotionally speaking - the last "girl" of the group, it seems to me.
good ones guys, Harriet might be the last of them to refer to herself as a girl, and the last of them to be stuck in the holding pattern and the same exact person she was in college. It seems like the others went through something in their lives that caused them to lose the idealism of youth to grow up so to speak.
When I read the book I didn't thing anything other than Baby was dead and so they were the last of the girls who went on the trip.
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