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Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Still Alice, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Ambition and Success
Loss of Identity
Illness, Marriage, and Family
Alzheimer’s, Quality of Life, and Happiness
Summary
Analysis
John sits alone at a table drinking black coffee. He has a spare hour and decides to read the health section of the New York Times. The first article he sees states that Amylix has failed its trial, and he reads it while he cries over his coffee.
Although he has seen for himself Alice’s rapid decline, when John sees the article about the failure of the Amylix trial, he is finally forced to accept that there is no hope for the drug to help Alice and that she, as he knows her, really is gone.
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