Towards the end of the war, Marianne finds Martin there but before going to the castle, they stop in Berlin to find Benita in a decrepit building where she has become a sex slave to the Russian soldiers in charge there.Ĭhapter Three goes back in time to March of 1938 and changes to Benita’s perspective in her small hometown of Fruhlinghausen. The caretaker of the children has tried to teach them Nazi propaganda. Chapter Two changes to May of 1945 and Martin Fledermann’s perspective as he lives in a home for German children of Nazi resisters.
They have taken an exhausting trip to get there and Benita recognizes the difference between where she grew up and her life now and feels overwhelmed. Chapter One starts in June of 1945 - seven years later at Burg Lingenfels as Marianne is bringing Martin and Benita to the castle. Part 1, Section 1 includes Chapters 1 - 4 and mainly tell Benita and Martin’s stories and how they get to Burg Lingenfels. The men of the resistance agree, and Connie gives her the title of “Commander of wives and children” (14). The men agree they must work together to resist Hitler, and Marianne promises that the women and children will stand at their side. Later Marianne finds her husband, Connie, and other men in the study discussing recent events in Munich - later to be called Kristallnacht. Connie Fledermann, one of Marianne’s closest friends, arrives with his new (and very young and attractive) wife Benita. Marianne puts her young children Elisabeth and Katarina to bed, asks her workaholic husband Albrecht to join the party and greets her guests. Marianne is throwing an annual party that is a tradition of her Aunt-in-Law, a German countess. The novel starts with the prologue from Marianne’s perspective at the castle, Burg Lingenfels in Ehrenheim, Germany, in November of 1938. In general time moves forward as the novel goes on, but often characters review events of the past. Each chapter is told from the third person but with the perspective of a different character including Marianne, Benita, Ania, Martin, and in one case Clotilde. Within each part are multiple chapters, thirty-eight in total. The Women in the Castle is told in four parts, with a prologue at the start.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Shattuck, Jessica.
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