Quentin: Personal Narrative

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Since the day Margo Roth Spiegelman moved into the house next door to Quentin, he has grown fond of her. Whether it be her cute shoes or outfit, everything she did seemed perfect to Quentin. As they grew up, Margo became very popular at school while Quentin became a nerdy and introverted loser who only has two friends, Radar and Ben. The night before Margo left Orlando, she asked Quentin to help drive her around to plot revenge against her friends. After completing her to do list, she takes him to the top of the SunTrust building where she explains her theory of Orlando being a paper town and how everything in it is fake. After the short conversation of Orlando being a paper town, Quentin and Margo shares a dance. The night comes to an end …show more content…
Realizing that she was in need of a car and Quentin had a crush on her, she took advantage of him. Quentin should have realized that the only reason why she came to his window that night was because she needed something from him that she didn’t have. This shows how selfish Margo really is, she rarely talked to Quentin in and out of school, but when she needed help, she came to the person who would do anything for her. After arguing about whether or not Quentin should or should not help, his naive teenage mindset agreed to her plan even though he refused it at first. She took Quentin on as a sidekick for the night to plot her …show more content…
Quentin has been so obsessed with finding Margo that he demanded Ben to come over to look at travel guides and became irritated when he refused to listen to his same story of thinking that he found Margo, “I drove across Central Florida in the middle of the night to be sober at the world’s drunkest party and drive your soggy ass home, and this is—” I would have kept talking, but I noticed that Ben had hung up. He hung up on me. Asshole,” (190). The adventure of finding Margo has become so important to Quentin that they left in the middle of graduation just so they arrive in time before Margo leaves Agloe. It is clear the obsession with Margo has taken over Quentin as he is seeking for closure or maybe a new

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