/lit/ - Literature

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For the narrator, her world is composed entirely of superficial and artificial qualities--there is no connection to anything remotely real, and many of the people she meets echo these themes. Her initial disconnect or disgust is seeing these qualities in herself and recognizing it, but not knowing how to move beyond it, or why she's feeling this way at all. Concurrently, she's frustrated that most people seem to either pursue these superficial/artificial qualities, are completely turned off and don't engage with life at all, or have found something that she has yet to experience herself.

By the end of the book, she experiences a kind of enlightenment. She realizes that the world she is in is inherently a mundane place, and that there's a beauty in even the most apparently trivial, artificial, or superficial things. I quite like the end of the book--I actually find it to be rather optimistic, given the subject matter.