The Golden Notebook Lesson Plan

Why is the book called The Golden Notebook, given what happens to the golden notebook in the narrative?

Anna writes of her mental breakdown in the golden notebook, trying to create a narrative that contains all her fictionalized and nonfictionalized experiences, and then ultimately Saul takes it and writes his very successful, masculine novel about war and male thinkers, which is ultimately very successful. Anna may or may not have ever written another novel—is Free Women her novel?—but the golden notebook is not, as the jacket copy says, her cohesive narrative. Rather, it's something a man has taken from a woman after leaving a relationship both loving and abusive. This...