Everyday By David Leviathan Character Analysis

There is no doubt that people want to spend their life with the ones they love, however, one’s love for another may not be enough. The novel Everyday written by David Levithan explains the complex love between young individuals and their struggle to love each other no matter what. Essentially, the novel Everyday follows the main character A, who is an undefined being who wakes up in a different body every day. It is never specified whether or not A is a male or female, yet most people label A as a male. A has his own memories but is also able to tap into the memories of the being he has inhabited. This allows A to get through most days without arousing suspicion of his presence in the body he is in. Most friends and family members do not notice …show more content…
Nathan knows that he has been possessed and as one would expect did not take it too well. Nathan stalked A until he convinced A to explain what happened to him so that he could move on with his life. At this point, A discovers that there are others like him and that they can actually take over someone’s life. A then decides that he must run away so that he does not take over someone’s body in order to be with Rhiannon. Though before he leaves, he finds someone new for her to spend the rest of her life with. Overall, Everyday is important/compelling because it makes it apparent that love is not enough to make a relationship last because interactions change love into something different. Furthermore, the purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of Symbolic Interaction to the novel Everyday. This paper first looks at the theory of Symbolic Interaction, explains the major components of the Symbolic Interaction Theory, and then combines Symbolic Interaction with the novel …show more content…
77). “Symbolic Interaction Theory (SIT) describes the inherently evolving processes of people interacting, interpreting, and placing symbolic meaning in the context of their experiences” (Roark, Gillard, Wells, & Blauer, 2014, p. 84). Therefore, “people are motivated to act based on the meaning they assign to people things, and events” (West & Turner, 2010, p. 19). These meanings are created in the language that people use both in communication with others and in self-talk, or in one’s own private thought. Language allows people to develop a sense of self and to interact with others. Symbolic Interactionism clarifies the individual in a society, as well as, their interactions with others and through that it can explain social order and