My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Ending explanation
Axsiu
Jan 17, 2022 12:02PM
Hi, I came back to this novel after while and although I was very fond of it I couldn't get the ending. I know that experiment proofed succesful but protagonist thoughts are very weird, of course the last paragraph in particular. Could anyone lay out his interpretation?
I took the ending as somewhat of a parallel between the narrator's privilege compared to her friend Reva. The narrator is able to afford to sleep a year of life away because she has her parents' inheritance. Working to afford a living isn't really a concern for her. Reva, however, doesn't come from a wealthy family, so she is thrilled whenever the narrator gives her designer clothing away to her.
The narrator watches the 9/11 catastrophe on the news and perceives a woman jumping from a building as her friend Reva, who just took a job working in one of the towers. She remained safe at home because she had no job to be at that day.
It also makes me think of how she said that if she had not awaken from her year of sleep feeling relaxed and refreshed that she would have jumped out of her window and killed herself. Here two different fates lie: 1) The narrator has a choice to jump. She can decide to do it depending on if her experiment worked, and 2) Reva did not have a choice. She had no other option but to escape the burning building by jumping.
It's devastating to see the author be so trivial about death.
The ending is also about how during her depressive state, the narrator consistently wished for Reva to be out of her life. She never wanted to be around her and often mocked her for the things she did and said. But after her year of sleep, she wants to meet up with Reva to see how she is doing. But at that point it is too late because Reva is dead.
The narrator watches the 9/11 catastrophe on the news and perceives a woman jumping from a building as her friend Reva, who just took a job working in one of the towers. She remained safe at home because she had no job to be at that day.
It also makes me think of how she said that if she had not awaken from her year of sleep feeling relaxed and refreshed that she would have jumped out of her window and killed herself. Here two different fates lie: 1) The narrator has a choice to jump. She can decide to do it depending on if her experiment worked, and 2) Reva did not have a choice. She had no other option but to escape the burning building by jumping.
It's devastating to see the author be so trivial about death.
The ending is also about how during her depressive state, the narrator consistently wished for Reva to be out of her life. She never wanted to be around her and often mocked her for the things she did and said. But after her year of sleep, she wants to meet up with Reva to see how she is doing. But at that point it is too late because Reva is dead.
I found it dry, funny and a bit crass…
I enjoyed the main characters POV and her antics, how she fooled her psychiatrist
I found her best mate to be a doormat and her fxxk buddy to be a loser and narcissist
I liked how it was not a busy plot with too many characters to confuse me
It got depressing and dry but I found it real and relatable
Interesting that the main character is never named
I’d read it again and I recommend it to mate who also read it
I enjoyed the main characters POV and her antics, how she fooled her psychiatrist
I found her best mate to be a doormat and her fxxk buddy to be a loser and narcissist
I liked how it was not a busy plot with too many characters to confuse me
It got depressing and dry but I found it real and relatable
Interesting that the main character is never named
I’d read it again and I recommend it to mate who also read it
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