The Squatter and the Don

How does the novel frame its ending as happy or tragic? Use personal experiences of the characters and larger historical arcs to orient your answer.

Does the novel make a clear political argument about what role women should have in policymaking? Use details from the text to orient your claim.

The Squatter and the Don has often been framed within different genres: the romance, the social reform novel, the political novel, and the sentimental novel. Using evidence from the text, argue how the novel does or does not fit into one or more genre descriptors.