The double-edged sword called "self-sufficiency"
I finished this a while ago! And I was actually okay about it. The protagonist is interesting.
Her name is Eleanor Oliphant, where the last name is given to her by herself, and she is a "self-sufficient" person who goes to work, comes back home, cooks herself dinner, reads or watches tv or listens to podcasts, and goes to sleep. On the weekend, she entertains herself with one or more bottles of vodka. She does not need help from others, because she can help herself.
At first, her life, or her personality, sounded like a hyperbolic version of this new human-kind emerged in the 2010s, where people mind their own businesses, are perfectly polite to others in public, make a sustainable amount of money, are cultured, are intelligent, read, and have no interest other people.
And so it was a little anticlimactic to figure out that the protagonist suffers from trauma and had an abusive mother. I don't think you need a PTSD to fear other people. But it was a heartwarming story after all. I like Eleanor! Some of the dark moments were handled very lightly, which I appreciated.
I finished this a while ago! And I was actually okay about it. The protagonist is interesting.
Her name is Eleanor Oliphant, where the last name is given to her by herself, and she is a "self-sufficient" person who goes to work, comes back home, cooks herself dinner, reads or watches tv or listens to podcasts, and goes to sleep. On the weekend, she entertains herself with one or more bottles of vodka. She does not need help from others, because she can help herself.
At first, her life, or her personality, sounded like a hyperbolic version of this new human-kind emerged in the 2010s, where people mind their own businesses, are perfectly polite to others in public, make a sustainable amount of money, are cultured, are intelligent, read, and have no interest other people.
And so it was a little anticlimactic to figure out that the protagonist suffers from trauma and had an abusive mother. I don't think you need a PTSD to fear other people. But it was a heartwarming story after all. I like Eleanor! Some of the dark moments were handled very lightly, which I appreciated.
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