Wish You Were Here Characters

We read the story “Wish you were Here” by Frank Jones, where Norah changes her thoughts because of the situations throughout the story. Norah has lived a consistent life, where from all of a sudden she changes herself according to the time. At that time murders were rare, but now the world is full of murderers, in which positive people have transformed into bad beasts. Throughout the story Norah had so many ups and down changes emotionally, which seems to her fate that she stays unhappy.

Norman’s cynical thinking had much influence on the plot, which also has changed Norah’s reaction negatively throughout the story. At the beginning, Norah was confident enough to trust anybody, but as circumstances changed she questioned herself, is this what she had lived up to? “What a dirty trick! Norah said when Dorothy told her what had happened, and they went to look at the empty spot where the gnome had stood.”(16) This explains that Norah’s phase was turning into a rough posture, where she got mad because she was Dorothy’s best friend plus they did not have anyone in their house, they meant far more than best friends to each other. That part of the day, she was probably thinking of poor Dorothy …show more content…
There are many types of negative changes during any circumstances, one of them is the character knowing about the universal truth, even if they try to not believe it. Same change has occurred on Norah, near the end, Norah comes back to her hometown, and she was acknowledged that her best friend was no more in this world. “Norah steadied herself against the wall.”Gone?”(21) She was in a terrible shock. The POV was in third person, so we could not read her thoughts, but we could derive that she was thinking negatively, and looking for safety for herself, now that she trusts