Normal People Lesson Plan

Discuss Marianne and Joanna's conversation about paid employment. What is Marianne's opinion? How does this conversation help to shine some more light on Connell's discomfort talking about money with Marianne?

Marianne finds it strange that people exchange hours of their limited time on earth for the human invention known as money. She believes that money is simply a social construct and that time, consisting of physics, is much more real and important. Joanna, who has a new job, argues that working or not, time passes by the same for each of them. While Marianne may have the ability to chose how to spend her time, Joanna counters that decision-making is also a social...