Cheryl Taggart doesn't die because she is expendable; she's another example of deadly immorality--she died from a romanticized view of reality that she could not abandon. Tony (the Wet Nurse) died because of his prior support of the government and its ideas. 7/18

The point of all this is to say that, to understand AS, you need to understand the conflict of ideas she was exploring and what each event has to say about that conflict. Interpreting the events in the novel in human terms will generally lead to missing what she was trying to say. 8/18