"Girl With a Pearl Earring" Analysis

The novel "Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier chronicles the young life of a woman named Griet, as she travels through a journey full of love, hate, jealousy, hardship, and other experiences throughout her work as a maid. She is employed at the famous painter Vermeer's very large household. Catharina plays a main role in the house and is Vermeer's stuck-up housewife who gives birth to many children. Her mother, Maria Thins, is …

…The bad side is that Griet never sees the true love of her life again, because they go about their separate ways and he eventually dies. Pieter is a person that Griet uses to get away from the memories of Vermeer, but no matter what she does, she will always remember the warmth of Vermeer's body in the winter, the feel of his hands upon hers, and the touch of his fingers upon her lips.