Throughout Maggie Mitchell’s novel Pretty Is Carly May and Lois repeatedly hold Zed’s opinion as important. An example of this can be seen when Carly May states, “I belong on stage. Zed told me so, and I knew it right away” (17, Mitchell). Lois even goes so far as to calling Zed the Sun that Carly May and her have always orbited. For both of these girls to refer to the man that kidnapped them as someone important and cherished is very strange. Why would they feel so bonded with a man that took them away from their homes? Could this attraction be due to Zed being someone both Carly May and Lois needed? Could the way Lois and Carly May cherish Zed be due to them having Stockholm syndrome? What caused the attraction both girls have towards
