Normal People

The Marianne that we meet at the beginning of this great novel is plagued by feelings of inferiority and a lack of self-worth. These feelings are exacerbated by the fact that she is a social...

Normal People, by Sally Rooney, is about the relationship between two close friends who encounter separations, personal growth, and misunderstandings. The two main characters, Connell and Marianne,...

Marx shines a light on class differences, understanding them as more important than race or gender. Where you are on the class ladder—that is, how much money you control—is the key determinant of...

The two novels do not exactly parallel each other, but a link between them is that each is centrally concerned with a love affair. In Gatsby, Daisy and Gatsby fall in love briefly before he goes...

Money plays a crucial, foundational role in Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People. The two main characters come together because of economics and the concomitant differences in their class status....