5/27/2023 0 Comments Olive again by elizabeth strout![]() ![]() He is so busy focusing on the life behind him that hs is forgetting to look at the life that he has waiting for him in the future. He is quite a happily married man but he is not appreciating his wife and children because he is too busy mourning the fact that more than half of his life is behind him. He fears that he went through most of his life withour really being conscious of it, and is nostalgic for the time again because he feels his life has been half lived.ĭenny also feels nostalgic but for different reasons. He seems preoccupied with his former relatiionships, both with his late wife and then with Elaine Croft, with whom he had an affair before meeting Olive. Jack is also given to nostalgic thought that turns to melancholy. She also reels sadness when she thinks about her relationship with her late husband. She believes she has become a "tiny bit better" of a person but not much. This is true even of Olive, who is by nature quite an upbeat and optimistic character certain experiences start to make her reconsider the person she was earlier in her life when her character was more abrasive than it is now. ![]() Many of the characters in the book are becoming extremely nostalgic and spending more time looking backwards in their lives than forwards. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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