And the reader’s journey into understanding Eleanor corresponds with her own. She exhibits this through her unintentional but punchy sense of humor.Īnd as you learn her more and more, you realize that kindness is not the most apparent emotion when it comes to Eleanor, because she hasn’t been the recipient of it much. She is judgemental, and aloof, and terse with her views on people, places, and things.
She isn’t a character you immediately take a liking to, because she doesn’t even love herself.
The book begins with an introduction into the formulaic life of the eccentric Eleanor Oliphant. She is rather fond of it and looks forward to spending her weekends the same way that she always does: buy a pizza from Tesco supermarket and two bottles of vodka on Friday, then spend the weekend alone, at home, in a drunken stupor. She is super-comfortable in her fairly predictable life and routine, and she doesn’t mind the monotony. This book comes as a pleasantly packaged surprise in the form of the story of Eleanor Oliphant, who works as a finance clerk in a graphic design firm. However, when a book is predominantly talking about loneliness and grief and trauma, it is hardly possible to not be triggered by it, right? Wrong. One of the major attractions of the book for me was its setting in Glasgow, the lovely city I’d grown to love recently. The only way to survive is to open your heart.Too many books for your bookshelf? You may need an e-reader. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes.
And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
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