Analysis of Eleanor Rigby :: Douglas Coupland

Eleanor Rigby is a story ab issue a 30-something female who lives her disembodied spirit with a very conscious and accepting aspect towards to her complete loneliness. She never goes out beyond her daily work experience, which she begins by counting down to her predicted date of death. This attendingly perfect mirage of a life is broken when Liz receives a phone call from the hospital saying that she outdo come to the E.R. As she arrives she meets a charming young man who turns out to be her son Jeremy, who she gave up after a drunken one-night-stand in the 10th grade on a school sponsored trip to rome. presently after being reunited with her son the doctors tell her that he has m.s. and that he doesnt bugger come to much time to life. Liz takes him home and begins to care for him, marking an incredible turn in her life. As Jeremys condition declines, Lizs attitude towards life progresses, and soon she visits herself in a journey to find Jeremys father, and to find real mean ing in life.Eleanor Rigby starts out slowly and in many instances you may be tempted to effect down the book, so one may be able to closed in(p) distance themselves with Liz Dunn?s seemingly incessant whining. Yet as the original progresses it is impossible not to feel compelled by the read. Coupland incorporates dark humor that drips off of every page leaving the reader satisfied. At times its laboured not to read with a smirk on ones face. Yet the reality of the story is so real and just that the reader will find their minds wandering towards thoughts of the Liz in their life, or the liz in themselves. The theme is that the prescient familiarity of death exists not to discourage but to motivate one to find the shortness of life and to exist with the greatness any individual possesses. This is support throughout the novel by many moments coated with loneliness and sorrow. and these moments seem to permeate all of what occurs. Liz seems to live off of this feeling of intense seclusion and use it as an excuse to be mediocre in life. totally when Jeremy is introduced into her life does she begin to take on roles she should have been motivated to do so earlier, and only when his imminent death becomes a pressing chemical element does she realize why he is not a miserable person.