New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s book “Olive Kitteridge” is an amazing combination of 13 stories, revolves around the one character name Olive. A woman who’s character is larger than life. Complexity of her personality involves the reader with her till the end. From “Pharmacy” to “River” a reader finds an infinite trait of her person. She is a teacher, wife, mother and a life saver too. The book is about the story of a woman’s regrets, her depressions, her desires, pain, her loneliness, and about the fear of rejections. Throughout the book reader can see her struggle to make sense of her life and her marriage. In the few stories like “Piano Player”, and ‘Winter Concert” she is not much mentioned by Strout. …show more content…
How she remembered her students, and how she had a soft corner about her students. It is not like she is always fighting with the people around. This incident gives a clear view of how she can make a positive difference in some one’s life. Olive may be blunt, out spoken yet also emphatic and vuluarble too. This is the all about her charm personality. Olive is very kindhearted which example can also be seen in the “Starving”. In this chapter by looking at the miserable condition of girl name Nina, olive bursts into tears. It is odd for Harmon, and Daisy; because they all have the different perceptive about Olive, which is rude, straight forward, and blunt. “If there’s any one in town Harmon believed he would never see cry, Olive was that person” (96). Even though Nina was completely stranger for her, still Olive was feeling sympathy for her. “I don’t know who you are, but young lady you are breaking my heart” (96).she has a sense of compassion even for the strangers.
The most important part of Olive’s life is her one and only son Christopher. THE “Little Burst” is the actual story in which reader get to know the story in olive’s point of view. This story is readers covers the distance from knowing to acknowledge her. The first chapter from her point of view, on her life. Her son is getting married to the girl name Suzanne, who is not favorite of Olive’s. She don’t want Christopher to marry this girl. But she is happy at his wedding. She wants Christopher to found a nice girl, because she thinks loneliness kill