when reading this novel, I’m telling myself, if you don’t know how to describe how the train moves, how to describe various scenes of raining against windows, how to describe a drunken, then go for this book. the line of words are full of sadness,which has some effect on my daily life.
from the beginning of the story, Rachel, an alcoholic, was abandoned by her ex-husband, finding hard to be a normal person in the street. I always thought the writer must be so nice to give her somebody or some comfort in the end. anyway, this is what I wish to find in an not fitting person, she can finally can find some happiness. don’t be so cruel to her. Things are complicated, right, we are too complicated to barely understand ourselves. on the other side, author gives Rachel a closure, though still connecting with past. she is no longer an alcoholic, but she still could not sleep with that particular scene replaying on and on. so tell me, how to deal with them. we maybe are some kind of tragedies, but we carry on. Once we found out, then we become tender.
another point of this story is lie. Tom build all these lies around his lives, attractive and perfect. but in the end, we wish someone to like your flaws as they like your bright sides.
Quote: I get into bed and turn the lights out. I won’t be able to sleep but I have to try. Eventually.
