Steph’s habit of shutting feelings inside and lying and hiding and believing she has to do everything by herself VS Steph’s huge feelings she is unable to contain and her habit of blurting stuff out bluntly and her willingness to be mean and how unable she is to hold back her anger.
Could really easily not work but it does!! It reads well!! It reads like a girl who had to get too used to relying on herself and not trusting easily but who is also as a product of that very same upbringing volatile and easily hurt!! Who assumes the worst and lashes out because that’s how she survived for so long!! Who still has so much love and heart and depth of feeling that is constantly boiling under the surface!! She is secretive and she is loud and she is closed off and she is painfully, painfully open!!! It’s a contradiction but it’s also intuitive and it also makes sense!!
