The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Week 4: Husband #4 — Harry Cameron & the Great Love
Read the chapters covering Evelyn's marriage to Harry Cameron in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
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Harry Cameron is the marriage that doesn't fit the pattern — the one Evelyn describes with the most tenderness and the least ambition — and understanding why requires reading very carefully.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Harry Cameron is Evelyn's closest friend and confidant long before he becomes her husband. How does Reid distinguish the love between Harry and Evelyn from the romantic love she has experienced in her other marriages?
2.Harry is gay, and their marriage is, in one sense, a mutual arrangement for protection and cover. Yet Evelyn speaks of him as the love of her life in a specific and meaningful way. How can both things be true simultaneously, and what does that complexity say about how we define love?
3.The marriage to Harry illuminates the brutal reality of being gay in mid-century Hollywood. How does Reid handle the historical dimension here — the danger, the secrecy, the constant performance of heterosexuality — without reducing Harry to a symbol or a victim?