The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library uses symbolism, metaphor, and allusion as its primary literary devices. The library symbolizes possibilities and choices, with each book representing different life paths....

In The Midnight Library, the chessboard symbolizes comfort and life lessons, fire represents rebirth and choice, swimming points to Nora's strained relationship with her father, space signifies both...

The most important theme of The Midnight Library is the centrality of choice in what it means to be human. In the central character of Nora Seed, we see an illustration of the notion that, to a...

The Midnight Library is a library that Nora visits when she wishes to change the path of her life. It symbolizes the many possibilities for Nora and also the futility of regret. The different worlds...

Over the course of The Midnight Library, Nora comes to realize that even the most regrettable choices in her life are part of her history.

In The Midnight Library, the multiverse theory explains how Nora is able to visit alternate timelines of her own life.