Lucky Girl - Completed
Updates Wednesdays Evelyn "Evie" Kilbride has always been the quiet friend, a shy girl who never had much to say, happy to wait in the wings as her best friend Kelly, the loud, confident ...
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@Velvet_Lilies
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oh man, I like your interpretation a lot more than mine. I always find it funny who you can write something with one intention and others will find so many different meanings from it.
Agreed - when you're seventeen virginity seems like the most embarrassing thing ever because you're looking at all the people with more experience than you and wondering what's wrong with you. I learned that everyone was lying about what they'd done anyway, and I like to think that this was the case for Kelly in part one. She probably had not done the things she told her friends about.
At the beginning Kelly - and Claire to a lesser degree - would have projected their own insecurities onto poor Evie. When Kelly feels like what she's done and how far she's gone is the most important thing about her, she would see her pressure on Evie as her way of "helping" her become more worthy. I guess setting her up with a boy she thought was a bit of a loser was a way of simultaneously keeping her in her place and not allowing her to be with someone who was too good for Kelly. Hence her fury at the Jude situation, Kelly could never have scored with Jude, so how is it fair that Evie, the defective friend, can?
Regarding Jude, flat out, he was too much for her to the point that you could say he was on a completely different plane of existence. He would have destroyed her, he was just too adult and she put too much stock in him and acted like he was the love interest in some romantic movie, it's too much pressure to put on a person and she would have never viewed him as mortal. Either he would have become frustrated by her desire to move slowly with him (and her obvious immaturity in other ways) or she would have jumped into bed with him before she was ready in order to prove something to him.
True about her mother, she absolutely could have taken the health approach, but it's telling that she hit Evie where it hurts. She was embarrassed by her husbands behavior at the dinner table and took it out on her daughter instead. Mothers and daughters can often have extremely complex relationships, they may be a lot that Marian sees of herself in Evie, and is afraid of her making the same mistakes, or projecting her own self loathing onto her, it's truly a tangled mess.
Yes! This is the central theme of the story - whether she can be worthy as her own person. The pursuit of joy in a society that keeps telling you that the most important thing in life is the companionship of another person.
Agreed - when you're seventeen virginity seems like the most embarrassing thing ever because you're looking at all the people with more experience than you and wondering what's wrong with you. I learned that everyone was lying about what they'd done anyway, and I like to think that this was the case for Kelly in part one. She probably had not done the things she told her friends about.
At the beginning Kelly - and Claire to a lesser degree - would have projected their own insecurities onto poor Evie. When Kelly feels like what she's done and how far she's gone is the most important thing about her, she would see her pressure on Evie as her way of "helping" her become more worthy. I guess setting her up with a boy she thought was a bit of a loser was a way of simultaneously keeping her in her place and not allowing her to be with someone who was too good for Kelly. Hence her fury at the Jude situation, Kelly could never have scored with Jude, so how is it fair that Evie, the defective friend, can?
Regarding Jude, flat out, he was too much for her to the point that you could say he was on a completely different plane of existence. He would have destroyed her, he was just too adult and she put too much stock in him and acted like he was the love interest in some romantic movie, it's too much pressure to put on a person and she would have never viewed him as mortal. Either he would have become frustrated by her desire to move slowly with him (and her obvious immaturity in other ways) or she would have jumped into bed with him before she was ready in order to prove something to him.
True about her mother, she absolutely could have taken the health approach, but it's telling that she hit Evie where it hurts. She was embarrassed by her husbands behavior at the dinner table and took it out on her daughter instead. Mothers and daughters can often have extremely complex relationships, they may be a lot that Marian sees of herself in Evie, and is afraid of her making the same mistakes, or projecting her own self loathing onto her, it's truly a tangled mess.
Yes! This is the central theme of the story - whether she can be worthy as her own person. The pursuit of joy in a society that keeps telling you that the most important thing in life is the companionship of another person.
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