The Woman In The Window Book Discussion

Hey guys! I’ve decided to do some book discussion questions for some of the books I read more than writing reviews. I’m still learning how to write decent reviews and I believe this may help me get there. Now just to warn you, these book discussions will have spoilers in them. What this is is basically like we’re at a book club discussing a book that we had just read so if you have not read the books that I will be posting about but plan on it then you should probably not read that post. If you don’t plan on reading that book or do not care about getting spoiled then I hope you will visit all of my discussions to see my views anyways!

Synopsis:

The Woman In The Window follows our main character named Anna Fox who is not able to leave her home because of a tragic event that has happened to her. She does not leave the house for any reason and others take care of all her needs for her. One of the things she loves to do is spy on the neighbors until one day she sees something she was not supposed to see.

Questions:

I found all of my discussion questions at bookclubchat.com

1. What was your initial impression of Anna? Did it change as the book went on?

Of course I did feel sorry for Anna not being able to leave her house but I was impressed by how she kept herself busy with learning French, playing online chess,etc. She was a woman that had gone through something traumatic but was able to find ways to get through the day. Did it change? A bit when I realized that some of the things that she was doing were not healthy for her at all(other than just staying locked inside of course), like constantly drinking and talking to her deceased husband and daughter.

2. Why do you think Anna was so obsessed with observing her neighbors? How did it make her feel connected to the outside world?

Anna’s life is lived through the computer. She talks to people about their lives and what they’re doing but she is not able to meet with them(espescially since some of them were like her and didn’t leave their home), so she watched her neighbors to actually see into their lives and it could have also reminded her of what her life used to be.

3. Did you believe her husband and daughter were still alive or were you surprised when it was revealed they passed away?

In the beginning I did believe that Anna and Ed were only just seperated and that their daughter was with him. I spoiled it for myself though when looking up discussion questions too early and seeing that they were actually deceased but this didn’t take away my desire to keep reading. I was a little surprised because their conversations were so real to her that I never doubted it.

4. Anna serves as an unreliable narrator. Did you believe that she did see a murder or did you wander if it was in her head/she made it up?

I did start to believe that she was hallucinating because she was taking her pills with alcohol which her doctor had told her a few times not to do, but at the same time I didn’t fully doubt her and I think it was because she still had the photo that the woman who was murdered had drawn for her. Even though that is not a lot to go on it just made me believe that no, this woman is not crazy.

5. Did you suspect Ethan at any point?

Again, I spoiled this for myself while looking up discussion questions but before that no, I didn’t think of him in that way because how vulnerable he acted but that ended up being his trick to keep eyes off of him and to help befriend Anna.

6. What did you think about the many film references Finn included in the story? Several times what’s happening on screen is almost happening in Anna’s world as well.

I liked that addition because there is only so much you can do when the plot mostly takes place in Anna’s house, so that helped add a lot of suspense to the setting and another interest of Anna’s that helped her through the day and some of the movies had connections to past events in her life as well.

I rated The Woman In The window a 5/5! I am so sad that I’ve put off reading this book for over 2 years! It is now on the list of my favorite mystery/thrillers.

Thank you so much for coming to my book discussion! I hope you have an awesome day!