![]() Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley.In this way, the narrator presents himself as all-knowing and aligns himself with a higher power. The narrator becomes the second-person audience, the third-person protagonist, and the first-person narrator/director. The last section is from a trifurcated point of view. The narrator sees himself as the main character in his own tragedy and often lives his life as if it’s being filmed. He’s obsessed with pop culture and the media, particularly with television shows and movies. The narrator in the story has a tendency to speak directly to his audience, which is repeated throughout the book. ![]() This blurrs the lines between himself and those consume his narrative. However, he also frequently addresses his audience directly by breaking the fourth wall. Because he is self-centered, he feels the need to make other people understand him, inflicting his point of view upon his listeners. This goes hand-in-hand with his narcissistic personality. The vast majority of the story is told through the first-person point of view of the narrator. The narrator writes the novel in hopes of it being published before Aisling’s photographs, which he believes will further humiliate him. However, Aisling’s cold treatment towards him raises doubts about the depth of their connection. The narrative follows the narrator’s relationship with a woman named Aisling, which he believes is his karmic retribution for mistreating other women in the past. But his lack of empathy makes it difficult for the audience to fully believe his accounts of emotional trauma. Throughout the story, the narrator reflects on his relationships and behavior. He also admits to experiencing bouts of paranoia, further complicating the reliability of his narrative. The narrator is self-absorbed and narcissistic, which makes it hard for the audience to trust his point of view. The novel, Diary of an Oxygen Thief, is told retrospectively by a narrator who looks back at his actions after he has been hurt. He writes this book in the hopes that it will be published before her photos, to avoid the humiliation he feels. At the end of their relationship, she humiliates him and the narrator realizes that she hates him. She convinces him to move to New York, but she treats him very coldly. ![]() There he meets a beautiful young photographer’s assistant named Aisling in New York and falls in love with her. But soon he gets bored and unhappy with his job and the Midwesterners. The narrator moves to Saint Lacroix, Minnesota, and buys a house there. He begins to attend AA meetings and gets a stable job as an advertising executive, staying away from women for five years. Once he hits a girl which may have been the reason he decided to join AA. He gets into many drunken bar fights, but these aren’t really fights as much as him insulting large men and getting hurt. He invites these women to his 30th birthday party, but gets so drunk that he doesn’t remember anything. Then he goes through a series of women, trying to get them to fall in love with him and then ignoring them. He then starts emotionally traumatizing women just for fun. However, he gets bored of her and begins drinking and cheating on her, ultimately ending their relationship. He talks about his longest relationship with Penelope, who he believes he truly loved. The narrator of the book loves to hurt women emotionally. One of these women, Aisling, is his karmic retribution for his poor treatment of women.īelow is the detailed yet quick summary of the book: Part 1 Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a book that chronicles the narrator’s relationships with women, many of whom he believes he has emotionally traumatized.
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