Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Week 11: "Chicago" — The Final Night
Read the final chapter, "Chicago," of Daisy Jones and The Six.
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July 12, 1979. The Dunne Stadium concert in Chicago. Everything the novel has been building toward arrives in a chapter that is as quiet and devastating as it is inevitable.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.The concert in Chicago is the event the entire novel has been moving toward, yet Reid does not render it as a dramatic explosion — the ending is quiet, personal, and internal. Were you surprised by the way she chose to end the band's story? What did her choice suggest about what she thinks the story was really about?
2.Daisy's decision on stage in Chicago — to walk away — is the pivot on which everything turns. How does Reid prepare us for it, and in retrospect, how long has Daisy been moving toward that decision?
3.Billy's reaction to Daisy's departure is one of the most emotionally loaded moments in the novel. What does his reaction reveal about what Daisy has meant to him — and about what he is ultimately choosing?