A Relentless Quest for a Paradoxical Normality: Sally Rooney’s Normal People

Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018) documents the complex, unstable, but, at same time, passionate relationship between two young and intelligent individuals, Marianne Sheridan Connell Waldron, from 2011 to 2015. While their stormy goes through various separations reattachments, follows a paradoxical quest deal with her psychological wounds stemming family violence abuse in childhood; she chooses remain silent adopts masochistic sexual practices. Accordingly, this study will first explore how Marianne’s silence serves as means of dealing emotional physical violence. It then move onto analyse harrowing past pushes adopt practices that give some relief even if temporarily. By demonstrating self-definition by keeping loyal is can be defined normality, draw attention one most important problems our age; against women coping strategies