Both Dorothy and Laurel have many secrets. Who do you think is the Secret Keeper the title references?
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There are several "secret keepers" in the novel, which helps to make it an interesting read. First, of course, we meet Vivien who is known to her family as Dorothy. But then in a flashback we find out that Dorothy was also a secret keeper as was Jimmy who got caught in Dorothy's fantasies. Vivien's first husband lives a double life as both "loving" husband and wife-beater. Laurel is also a secret keeper, especially at the end when she chooses not to tell her sisters their mothers' true identity.
The story makes us realize that in some ways we are all secret keepers, especially about our families.
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There are so many characters that have secrets. Dorothy kept Jimmy a secret. Vivan kept the secret of her violent first husband, Henry Jenkins. Laurel is keeping the secret that she is investigating Dorothy's past and then finally tells her brother, but her sisters are kept out of the investigation.
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All of the major characters seem to have a secret, as others have observed. Vivien and Laurel seem to have the most important secrets, but Jimmy, Henry and, to some extent Gerry have secrets as well. And perhaps most interesting is Dolly, with her combination of secrets and delusions - she is in such a fantasy world much of the time that it is hard to tell whether her "secrets" are real or imagination gone wild.
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I like "Sandrah's" interpretation. Jimmy is also becomes a secret keeper in that he finds Vivien, but doesn't show himself to her and then later he meets Laurel and doesn't reveal who he is to her either. I was wondering how much Dorothy's husband knew of her secrets. He seemed to be a non-character in the book.
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I agree with the comments of dorothyt and laurap. Every character seems to have a secret. Vivien's husband ?--nope, not a protective spouse but an abusive creep, Laurel's happy childhood? -- no, she's been haunted by a traumatic scene and lied to her brother when he was inquisitive about their youth; on and on.
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