It can be suffocating even briefly inhabiting the minds of Sally Rooney’s characters. With just two outrageously popular novels to her name, the Irish writer has become famous for writing tortured relationships. Her naive, youthful characters find love in secrecy, slipping past friends and partners to be together. In her second book, Normal People, love does not blossom between its lead characters Connell and Marianne so much as it proliferates like a garden weed, ravaging their young adult lives as they fail to resist each other.
novels to her name, the Irish writer has become famous for writing tortured relationships. Her naive, youthful characters find love in secrecy, slipping past friends and partners to be together. In her second book,, love does not blossom between its lead characters Connell and Marianne so much as it proliferates like a garden weed, ravaging their young adult lives as they fail to resist each other.isn’t a truly romantic story, at least not classically.
That slippage of honesty between what Connell and Marianne truly feel and think and how they don’t always act on it makesa difficult text to adapt to the screen. The show’s lead actors do the best they can at translating the silent desires of their characters in absence of a voiceover or the book’s context, and viewers really do spend a lot of time just sitting in the silence of these characters.
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