The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Week 6: Husbands #6 & #7 — Max Girard and Robert Jamison
Read the chapters covering Evelyn's marriages to Max Girard and Robert Jamison in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
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The final two marriages mark different stages of Evelyn's long aftermath — the life she built after the greatest loss — and Reid uses them to ask what remains when the fight for survival is over.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Max Girard is a filmmaker who sees Evelyn as material — as an image to capture and interpret. How does their dynamic explore the relationship between the artist and the muse, and why might Evelyn be drawn to someone who views her so deliberately through a lens?
2.By the time Evelyn reaches her sixth marriage, the reader has seen her navigate abuse, ambition, grief, and the suppression of her truest self. How has she changed — or hardened — as a person by this point in her life?
3.Robert Jamison, the seventh husband, occupies a different emotional register from the others. What does this marriage represent in the arc of Evelyn's life? Is it resignation, contentment, pragmatism, or something more nuanced?