She says, “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion,” begging the question: is being pragmatic and hating life better than being ignorant and loving it? She is self-absorbed, avoidant, pessimistic, and neglects her only friend but despite all that, she’s practical.
Although I find her character irritable at times, she is extremely relatable. The narrator is unnamed, which seems to be a method the author uses to make her more relatable. She thinks that sleeping would get her away from her problems, but when she awoke from her slumber she had missed out on everything. The narrator hatches a plan in order to sleep through an entire year, lying to therapists for sleeping pills, denying her friend’s attempts to get her to go to parties, and eventually locking herself in a room to sleep for months. Reality of depression and the lengths that one will go through in order to achieve peace.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, is an incredible book that portrays the
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