How do the two characters grow up along the book:

Marianne:

• At the beginning, she’s the isolated and friendless one

• She has got an introverse personality

• She’s not appreciated by her peers and she knows it

• She seems not to be loved by her mother and her brother, sometimes

• She belongs to a wealthy family

• She’s brilliant at school

• Things start to change when her and Connell’s acquaintance develops and they start to speak when they’re at scholl in front of other people

• Her personality grows up when she goes to University, after the high school

• She becomes popular and open to the other people

• She experiences different boyfriends

• Only when she’s with Connell she can be herself and find her identity

• Even if she grows up along the book Connell remains the only person she can tell everything to, even after a long time they don’t meet each others

Connell:

• At the beginning, she’s the popular and loved one

• She’s opened to friends

• She lives with his mother Lorraine and there is a nice agreement between the two

• He belongs to a poor family

• He’s brilliant at school too

• His personality starts to chang when he understands he likes Marianne

• At first he doesn’t want the school to know he knows Marianne well, because of reputation

• Things change when Connell start considering her in front of her friends, for example when he defends her to a party while she was victim of bullying

• His mental strenght and personality decreases when he goes to the University

• He becomes depressed and their role swap, now he’s the isolated and friendless one

• He’s not inclined to know other people, even if he finds a girlfriend

• As happens for Marianne, Connell knows he can be himself only when he speaks with Marianne, even if they don’t see each others for a long time