Summary Of The Novel 'An Abundance Of Katherines'

The novel An Abundance of Katherines, written by John Green, is focused on the life of a former child prodigy, Colin Singleton. Colin has a clear type when it comes to love. He has dated 19 girls named Katherine. Another pattern in his relationship, is that every one of them has dumped him. One summer when Colin goes on a road trip with his best friend Hassan, everything changes. Colin has many positive qualities, these include intelligence, confidence and compassion. It is due to these characteristics that Colin is able to effectively deal with conflict throughout the story.

1st Body: There is no traditional conflict in this novel. Rather, Colin is working to accomplish a theory and formula about romantic relationships. His intelligence is crucial in him achieving this. Colin has a lot of experience with being dumped and has developed a hypothesis about people, “Colin believed that the world contained exactly 2 kinds of people, Dumpees …show more content…
This helps build relationships with people that help him develop his Theorem. When they first meet, Colin thinks Lindsey is beneath him because of how she looks and what she is doing. “Colin was trying to think whether a worthwhile soul in all of human history had ever read a single copy of Celebrity Living” (30). Colin is suffering from a case of stereotyping. He is judging Lindsey before even knowing her. Little does he know that if he had continued judging her and hadn’t gotten to know her, he never would’ve finished his Theorem. “He went looking for Lindsey… ‘I finished our Theorem’ he told Lindsey” (187). The two teenagers combined Lindey’s street smarts and Colin’s aptitude for numbers to create a perfect formula to determine how a relationship will end. If it weren’t for Colin opening his mind to Lindsey and showing some compassion, the Dumper/Dumpee Theorem never would’ve been