For this Blog post I chose the first discussion question. Lives of Girls and Women may be read as a bildungsroman, or a coming of age story. Discuss one aspect of the protagonist’s coming of age as it occurs in one story, or as it happens over the course of the book.

     I feel that this novel can be read as a bildungsroman in some different ways. One section that stuck out to me as coming of age would be when she meets Garnet French and they become lovers. It seems as though she is going through a faze and believes she is growing up because she moves on from the good boy Jerry to the bad boy Garnet. He is the opposite of what a girl would want to end up with. He has been in jail and is a drop out. He is pretty much the total opposite of her and is obviously just a fling to help Del “grow up.”