Are you surprised when the children go off with Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which in A Wrinkle in Time? Why do they go off with these strange...

This is a
question about personal reaction to a text, also called reader-response theory. I was not
surprised the first time I read the novel that the children would go off with Mrs. Who, Mrs.
Whatsit, and Mrs. Which, because L'Engle sets her story up to make it seem completely
plausible.

First, we are educated to trust these three women, largely
because Charles...