Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Relationships and Cayce

Throughout the novel Cayce reveals an extreme difficulty to develop close relationships with other people. This difficulty is hinted at in several instances. Her unwillingness to open her mom's emails, her escape from the Tokyo hotel when she "started to project Win on those white walls [...], the image still ungrived." (p. 133) She seems to be surrounded by unresolved relationships, her mother, her dead(?) father, Damien. One of her closest friends is Parkaboy and she hasn't even ever met him in person. And now Boone comes into her life and yet she is unwilling to let her true feelings come forth as she shows when she finds out that he is staying at her ex's apartment in Tokyo, she "hadn't liked it, and doesn't like it that she doesn't like it." (p. 170) Troubled character, Cayce...

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