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Youth
Shocker, we know: a novel set in the orbit of a kindergarten has something to do with youth.
It's not just the five-years-olds whose youth is of note in Big Little Lies, however. Jane's youth is notable because she's so mature. Abigail's youth is notable because she, um, thinks she's so mature. Madeline mourns her lost youth, and Celeste is deeply concerned about making the wrong impression on her young sons.
At the end of the novel, everyone is a little older and a little wiser.
Big Little Lies shows children as being fundamentally innocent.
Big Little Lies makes no connection between youth and innocence.
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