1. When was Roxana born?  When did she get married? When did her husband leave? etc. etc.  Try to track on the dates.

2. What does casuistry mean?  Try looking up casuist as well.  

3. Follow the word case.  

4. Also try to figure out what Roxana means by circumstances.

5. How does the novel set up a sense of a documentary account?

6. On wht grounds is this novel said to be instructive?

7.  Readers sometimes sense that Defoe's novels have an unstable narrative point of view.  What do you think?  

8.  Start gathering evidence about Amy's character.  What does Roxana say about her? For example, what do you make of a phrase like "faithful to me, as the Skin to my Back" (25)?

9. What do you think about Roxana's children?

10. Notice the word consent.