The Best Girlfriend You Never Had | Themes

Chaos and Order
With their relentless activity, constant noise, and swarms of people, large cities can be overwhelming, and city dwellers often move to the country for its peace, its trees and rivers. Lucy, however, does just the opposite: she leaves the country and moves to the big city, saying she ‘‘couldn’t keep separate anymore what was the land and what was me.’’ Her move to the city, then, ironically becomes a move to find order in the chaos her life has fallen into. ‘‘I thought there might be order to the city: straight lines, shiny surfaces and right...

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