SuitabookPermanent Record
Mary H. K. Choi
- Reading
- Read together if useful, pausing to talk about the characters' choices and pressures. You could also check in after the story, since the intensity and resolution of its complications are unclear.
- Themes
- Identity and expectations: Pablo and Leanna consider who they are and want to be while facing expectations from others. The overview makes self-discovery and resisting expectations central, but does not show how the story ultimately evaluates either.
- Fame and private life: Leanna is an internationally famous pop performer who had a career as a child star; she meets Pablo, who works at a deli. The contrast in their public profiles is clear, but the overview does not establish whether fame is portrayed positively, negatively or ambivalently.
- Debt and financial strain: Pablo has credit-card debt and student loans and works a graveyard shift at an upscale Brooklyn deli. Financial strain is part of Pablo's circumstances; the overview does not indicate how the story explains or resolves it.
- Worth knowing
- Pablo's credit-card and student-loan debt are explicit parts of his situation. The story also involves the pressures of celebrity and others' expectations; how intensely these are depicted is unclear.