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74. Life is Short; Geography; Map of Despair
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Everything, Everything, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Coming of Age
Trust and Lies
Family, Abuse, and Bravery
The Value of Experience
Summary
Analysis
Maddy reviews The Stranger by Albert Camus, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, and Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. She says that these works reveal that everything is nothing. Maddy selects every email from Olly in her inbox and deletes them.
Deleting all of Olly’s emails is an attempt to turn their relationship into nothing, too. This makes losing contact with Olly easier to deal with and less painful for now, and Maddy’s newfound interest in nihilist literature suggests that despite her meaningful experiences in Hawaii, she’s now reverted to a pessimistic and apathetic worldview in order to cope with her pain.
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