Secrets have a lot of power in Big Little Lies. Jane keeps her assault a secret, trying to make it mean nothing:
She’d always known that her reaction to that night had been too big, or perhaps too small. She hadn’t ever cried. She hadn’t told anyone. She’d swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything. (232)
Do you think that secrecy gives things more power? Why would a survivor choose to keep their experiences secret?
Do you think that secrecy gives things more power? Why would a survivor choose to keep their experiences secret?