Zoe is the most layered character I've ever discovered! I loved her quirky, careless personality. She was a mix between Ms. Helbing, Juno, and my mom! Ms. Helbing because of her random tidbits of information and facts on history, Juno because of her bland, careless attitude, and my mom because of her going-nowhere conversation with Evan on the phone!
Zoe is a lonely woman, with a dull job in Illinois. The way she described the kids in the Midwest as "spacey from large quantities of meat and cheese" set the tone for her awkward thought processes and conversations. The spacey description of the kids was ironic in the sense that Zoe presents herself as quite spacey and random! Throughout the story, Zoe thinks up snippets of old conversations she's had. From these inner conversations, I felt Zoe was lonely. When she describes herself as "seeing her house, tending to it when it wets, when it cries, and when it throws up," Zoe summarizes her lonely state. She finds both loneliness and companionship by personifying her empty house.
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