girl with a pearl necklace
The novel Girl with a pearl earring written by the American author Tracy Chevalier is about a young, Dutch girl, Griet, who becomes maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. ... Coming out of a poor family, the 16-year old girl, alone, supports her family with the 8 stuivers she earns a day. ... However, the young girl has to put in a lot. ... Griet, being a smart, beautiful, young girl with a proclivity and obvious talent toward arts, quickly gets victim of some family member’s sheer envy. ... After two years of serving as a maid, when Catharina finds out about her husband is painting the maid, who is wearing her pearl-earrings, Griet has to leave the Vermeer household. ... The novel “ Girl with a pearl earring”, which is a work of fiction, has been written in the Contemporary Period (1939-present); however, it takes place in the Colonial Period (1607-1776). ... As mentioned before, the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is product of the author’s imagination, however, Chevalier combines her fiction with reality and very well brings both together to write an exciting story.