But she was also the only person to reach out to the narrator when her parents were dying and remains her only real contact with the real world now. For her part, Reva is clearly envious of the narrator’s material circumstances and natural appearance, which has flared up into “privilege checking” arguments in the past. The narrator is often less than flattering about Reva but the fact is that she is the only friend to attend Reva’s mother’s funeral. “They turned everything, even hatred, even love, into fluff I could bat away.”Įleri Riglar (via email): I think when it comes to Reva and the narrator’s relationship, actions speak louder than words. “Reva was like the pills I took,” she says. Reva shows an interest in the narrator, and is one of her only attachments to real life, and therefore the narrator is also attached to her, but at the same time, Reva’s way of speaking in clichés and Hallmark card-style phrases grates on the narrator and makes her feel like nothing is real to Reva. We find out about the beginning of their friendship – after the narrator’s mother dies, Reva is the only person to ask her questions about it – and the sense we have that the narrator "needs" Reva and her affection and jealousy is confirmed. LO: This is the chapter in which we get to the root of the narrator’s attachment to Reva. A) The narrator describes Reva as if she is not a real person: “It always impressed me how predictable Reva was – she was like a character in a movie.” What can we say about their relationship in this chapter?
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