AWWW Ennis clearly has a type because when he was a teenager and talking to Jack Tornado on the phone, he imagined him looking the way Jack Twist does. When he discovered that JackTornado was actually named Chris Perkins and had red hair and glasses, he was devastated. But as he tells himself in that early chapter, just because Jack Tornado looked nothing like the way he imagined him, as Chris Perkins he still cared about Ennis. But (if I recall correctly), he reflects that if they had been in school together, he would not have sought out Chris as a friend because he sensed that Chris was another misfit and Ennis wanted to belong to the mainstream. It was a scene from About A Boy that gave me this idea. In that movie, the main character is rejected by the two misfit boys he is drawn to because, they tell him, they make a bigger target if there are three of them.
Ennis now sees that he was stuck, but he wasn't conscious of that at the time. Looking back, he can see that certain people seemed to get him before he did himself. He is alluding to Elliot having even greater powers of perception than the others mentioned… which will become more evident later in the story.
It surprised me that readers were surprised about Lureen. I thought there were so many hints, but it's just as well that people didn't put all the pieces together before now. I was thinking along these lines before Love And Other Drugs came out. I hadn't yet given the color separation house salesman a name yet, but when I learned the salesman's name in LAOD was Jamie, I decided to go in that direction
Ennis now sees that he was stuck, but he wasn't conscious of that at the time. Looking back, he can see that certain people seemed to get him before he did himself. He is alluding to Elliot having even greater powers of perception than the others mentioned… which will become more evident later in the story.
It surprised me that readers were surprised about Lureen. I thought there were so many hints, but it's just as well that people didn't put all the pieces together before now. I was thinking along these lines before Love And Other Drugs came out. I hadn't yet given the color separation house salesman a name yet, but when I learned the salesman's name in LAOD was Jamie, I decided to go in that direction
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