![]() ![]() Next Section Quotes Previous Section Glossary How To Cite in MLA Format Anonymous "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Themes". Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. The tragic downfall of their relationship is evidence of this quiet theme: that a person must love their self in order to sustain a healthy relationship through time. Once there is a place for them to experience approval and self-esteem, they build their whole lives around the approval of that other person, and a house of cards forms. The girls give each other free approval and self-esteem, but not until they are in a trusting relationship, a thing that is often hard to come by for both girls. Intimacy is closely related to tragedy here. They struggle to survive after their relationship ends for paranoid and unfounded reasons. They are lovers, and they start to fall in love more and more, until the death of one of their parents sends their relationship into emotional chaos. Their friendship goes from acquaintances with their shyness and fear of intimacy, through a friendship that lasts as they get to know each other, eventually blooming in a sexual relationship that surprises them (and perhaps even the reader). The intimacy that they experience is clearly a thematic part of the book. Because of fear of others, because of agoraphobia, and because of the fear of intimacy, the girls don't realize that they are lonely until they meet each other and finally have someone who understands their struggle, with whom they can connect. Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure. The novella explains through its story that their despair is self-imposed. Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick. Being around people is often very painful, but this is because being around people accelerates their fear of being socially unacceptable. These girls are wracked by depression because they are lonely, but it is difficult for them to draw that conclusion. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous 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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