![]() ![]() ![]() Is he annoyed? Why should he be?”Īidan and Declan’s mother recently died: “Their mother was sick for a long time, though she wasn’t old, and he loved her very much, so it’s painful to think of her now. Aidan has a feeling of some kind, but he doesn’t know what the feeling is. “Outside the windows, the darkness is punctuated only by passing headlights and, far up in the hills, the flickering lights of houses, hidden and revealed through the leaves of trees. ![]() And I paid attention to Rooney’s descriptions as I read to see how it helps us understand that process. It’s really about how it is people fail to connect. In this story, set up as a kind of potential romance, it’s more about missing than hitting the mark, as Declan, an office manager who seems to drive screenwriter Pauline around, introduces her to his younger brother Aidan. “I tend to write characters who are roughly as articulate and insightful as I am about what they think and feel.” As is usual in Rooney, these folks don’t really know how to talk with each other, don’t know how they feel. It’s a story of three young people, twenty-somethings, Declan, his brother Aidan, and Pauline. ![]() Salary," separately, and this review is for "Colour & Light":Ī short story you can hear Sally Rooney Herself read, on The New Yorker site. ![]()
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