Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

Stradal is known for his complex characters. Compare at least two characters in the novel. How do their sympathetic traits mesh with their flaws?

Bear Jaw changes enormously throughout the novel. How do these changes affect the town socially, economically, and culturally?

How do daughters make decisions in the face of their mothers’ approval or disapproval? How does this aspect of these layered relationships play out?