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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler’s Wife. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Beginning with an Ending. The final scene of The Time Traveler’s Wife recounts a visit Henry makes to the future where he finds Clare as an old woman. Niffenegger has shared that this last encounter between husband and wife served as the inspiration for the whole novel and was the in first scene she wrote.
In Her Own Image. Protagonist Clare’s artistic abilities mirror Niffenegger’s work as a visual artist. Like her fictional character, Niffenegger works primarily with paper arts such as papermaking and bookbinding.