It seems relatively easy to fall down the rabbit hole, but what about getting out? What do we do when we decide we don't particularly like it in the rabbit hole anymore?
WARNING: This is currently in the very, very, very, very beginning stages of development and most likely doesn't make much sense.
For my conference paper, I think it would be interesting to look at the different ways that characters react when they are unsatisfied by the direction their lives are headed. Is there a way out? The solution chosen by Mary, Nina, and the Lisbon girls is death, either literally or figuratively. However, looking at the characters from our future readings, Jake (Hemingway) and Clay (Ellis) find themselves in similarly unsatisfactory conditions, but elect not to find escape in death. One can't help but notice that the former is a group of females, and the latter a group of males. Are our authors corroborating society's belief that males are inherently "stronger" than females and therefore less likely to give up? Or are there factors other than gender that affect these responses to dissatisfaction with life in the rabbit hole?
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