Verity by Colleen Hoover
Week 4: Chapters 17–22 — Lowen and Jeremy
Read Chapters 17–22 of Verity by Colleen Hoover
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The relationship between Lowen and Jeremy moves from tension to intimacy, and the novel's ethical stakes escalate sharply. This week centers on desire, loyalty, and the lies people tell themselves.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.The romantic and physical relationship between Lowen and Jeremy develops in these chapters. How does Hoover handle the ethics of this relationship within the narrative — does the story seem to endorse it, complicate it, or leave judgment entirely to the reader?
2.Lowen is aware, at this point, that she is falling for a married man whose wife is incapacitated in the next room. She continues reading a manuscript that paints that wife as a monster. To what extent do you think Lowen's interpretation of the manuscript is being shaped by what she wants to be true?
3.Jeremy speaks about Verity in these chapters with a mixture of grief, protectiveness, and — gradually — doubt. Which moments in his behavior or speech suggest that he may have harbored his own suspicions about Verity long before Lowen arrived?