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Agatha ChristieThe Mysterious Affair at Styles
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
What are Arthur and Poirot’s experiences of WWI, and how do they differ from the other characters’ experiences? Does the war play a part in the plot? Why or why not?
Why does the novel make readers distrust Alfred Inglethorp from the beginning? Does this make the revelation that he is the murderer more or less surprising? Why?
What are Arthur’s strengths and weaknesses as a narrator? Why does the novel feature a narrator with weak spots?
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