Behind Closed Doors

How is color used in Behind Closed Doors? What do the colors symbolize?

At times, Grace calls Jack a sociopath, at others a psychopath. What are the differences between those two designations? The similarities? How does Jack display these qualities? Where does he diverge from the clinical diagnoses?

Behind Closed Doors presents a dichotomy between women who work and those who don’t. How does the book represent working mothers Diane and Esther? How does it represent Grace? What are Diane and Esther’s attitudes toward Grace?