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Chevalier's Girl With A Pearl Earring

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After a reading, Chevalier‘s Girl with a Pearl Earring a reader may think what they are reading is a history text, and not a novel. In Chevalier 's fictional novel, the character Griet is one of Vermeer 's maid, is the model for the painting. The painting is no more called Girl with the Pearl Earring, but now known as Griet the maid, a girl whose father lost his sight and sister died in the black plague. Griet has been through a lot, but really she is made up. Berger last part of his Ways of seeing says, “Many of the ideas in the preceding essay have been taken from another, written over forty years ago by a German critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin” (34) Where Chevalier‘s novel Girl with a Pearl Earring are many fictional ideas of a

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