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- Title
(Im)possible Facilitating Environments: The Spaces of Family in Sally Rooney's Normal People.
- Authors
Bom Angelo, Bárbara
- Abstract
Based on the concept of the "good enough" facilitating environment developed by pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott, this article aims at analyzing the family relationships depicted in the novel Normal People by Sally Rooney. By means of the contrast of experiences, Rooney develops two distinct family environments - for Connell Waldron, the space is nurturing; while for Marianne Sheridan, it is marked by violence. Through the dialogues between the protagonists and the information provided by the third-person narrator, which alternates between the points of view of both characters, it is possible to infer how these spaces impacted, positively or negatively, the coming-of-age process of the protagonists, especially in terms of their self-perception and in the choices they make over the four years covered in the novel.
- Subjects
FAMILY relations; HOME environment; SPACE environment; PEDIATRICIANS; PSYCHOANALYSTS
- Publication
ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 2024, Vol 26, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
1518-0581
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v26i1p35-45