In Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient a young psychotherapist takes a job at a rundown mental hospital in order to help treat a woman who is convicted of murdering her husband and will not speak. What, in the end, is prompting her silence?
Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of both Theo and Alicia affect the story? How do the shifting timelines affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one of their perspectives?
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