Green

Green represents performance in the novel. The velvet curtains at the Le Grand Leon theater are green. Here a play is performed. Hazel's mother wants her to wear arsenic green to the theater to catch Bernard's eye, another sort of performance. Hazel pretends to have a green tongue when she convinces Lady Sinnett to let her stay home. This is, yet again, another example of performance, but this time the performance is an outright deceit.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft represents science gone awry in the novel. Hazel makes the joke at the end of Chapter 10 that since she is paying full tuition for the anatomy class, she doubts the doctors will care if she is Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft is the author of Frankenstein, an older gothic novel in which the author, Frankenstein, creates a monster who ends up killing people. Just because something can be done...