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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"hellohannah2;c-18229194" wrote:Spoiler
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.
I love that theme :)
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That has stood out to me as important, during this "act" of the story that's at college/Dublin, that there's no one person Evie is hung up on, in the same way as Jude was her focus throughout the first act. She's got art, friends, boys, parties, and complicated feelings about all of them, but no one thing is giving that single-minded purposeful shape to her life. While she's got her struggles and is floundering in some ways, maybe the struggle and the floundering will ultimately lead her in the direction of understanding and appreciating herself more fully, than she'd be able to if she were just stuck on one person or one thing.
Unless alcohol is going to become a thing that she's hung up on, in "Act 2"? Recent episodes have focused more and more on drinking...
That has stood out to me as important, during this "act" of the story that's at college/Dublin, that there's no one person Evie is hung up on, in the same way as Jude was her focus throughout the first act. She's got art, friends, boys, parties, and complicated feelings about all of them, but no one thing is giving that single-minded purposeful shape to her life. While she's got her struggles and is floundering in some ways, maybe the struggle and the floundering will ultimately lead her in the direction of understanding and appreciating herself more fully, than she'd be able to if she were just stuck on one person or one thing.
Unless alcohol is going to become a thing that she's hung up on, in "Act 2"? Recent episodes have focused more and more on drinking...
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