Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor has never been informed that life ought to be better than fine. Eleanor Oliphant, meet her: She has trouble using acceptable social skills and frequently expresses her thoughts in full. Nothing is lacking from her well-planned existence of avoiding social connections, which includes frozen pizza, vodka, and phone calls with her mother on the weekends.
But when Eleanor meets Raymond, the clumsy and incredibly unsanitary IT guy from her company, everything changes. The three become the kinds of friends that rescue one another from the life of isolation they had each been living when Sarah and Raymond work together to save Sammy, a senior citizen who has fallen on the pavement.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
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And in the end, Eleanor will benefit from Raymond’s enormous heart by learning how to mend her own severely harmed one. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, which is about an unconventional heroine whose deadpan oddity and unconscious wit make for an irresistible trip as she realizes, is soon to be a major movie feature produced by Reese Witherspoon. Opening your heart is the sole means of survival.
One of my favourite characters I’ve encountered in a while is Eleanor Oliphant, a lovely, eccentric, and resourceful woman created by Gail Honeyman. It was terribly painful to read about Eleanor’s evolution from the person she was at the beginning to the stronger, better version of herself at the conclusion, but it was also uplifting and inspirational.
Eleanor Oliphant’s terrible background has left her with acute social awkwardness and a complete lack of awareness of social graces. She spends her workweek avoiding her critical coworkers in the finance department of a graphic design firm and her weekends consuming the litre or two of vodka she buys from her neighbourhood convenience shop.
Her way of life is predetermined, organized, and incredibly monotonous. When she and the new IT employee, Raymond, assist an old man who passed out on the sidewalk after work, the routine of her existence is broken. Eleanor is taken on an emotional journey she wasn’t intended on taking but one she has needed for a very long time by this series of circumstances and a tiny bit of fate.
Eleanor is direct and opinionated. She is just so emotionally and socially immature that a lot of what she says is inadvertently funny. Although there were times Honeyman was asking the reader to suspend reality a bit too far, her character had a naiveté and innocence that is totally adorable and delightful. When I read the book, I understood that I had grown to adore Eleanor throughout the course of the story, with all the quirky and flawed aspects of her personality.
This book’s colourful cast of characters contributed to its increased enjoyment. Eleanor introduces Raymond to us as the new guy at work, describing him as an unsightly overweight smoker who walks on the balls of his feet. He makes up for his lack of conventional beauty with his heart. He is such a decent man who adores his mother and over time develops a genuine affection for Eleanor. The elderly guy Eleanor and Raymond assist, Sammy, is vibrant, sprightly, and so wonderful!
