Jenny's Character Analysis

The main character, Jenny has the motivation to seek for a more desirable and meaningful life where she feels as if she is making an impact on her surroundings. This is seen in Neil as well but in a more literal sense due to how the snow storm has made any outside contact impossible. For instance, when the TV is still not working he states, “The electricity’s on. You’d think with a satellite dish we’d pick up something (2018). He also explains to Jenny how he does not enjoy being remote from the rest of the world and tells her, “Thanks for that. I’m still not used to it. Being so remote. Nature’s always scared the living crap out of me. Now I’m living in it. Or visiting it on weekends, anyway. You know I saw a bat flapping around out there? I didn’t
However, for Jenny’s case, she is seeking a figurative and more complex advancement of her life. She wants a revelation due to how she is tired of living a life of normality. She is actually happy that a blizzard has hit their place rather than Neil because she feels something different from the normal for once. She states “Yes, we have no radio and a beautiful blizzard and a house and woods and a mountain that are all ours” (2018). Jenny represents a heroic archetype due to how she is unique from her desires compared to Neil and other people. She describes to Neil that she wants her life to be like a murder mystery due to how “in a murder mystery, everything is significant. The people in murder mysteries are living in a significant world. A world where everything is there for a reason. Even before the murder’s happened, you know that one is going to happen and you know that everything is a clue. And you know that everybody has a secret of some kind” (2018). She wants her life to be like a murder mystery because each person has significance and everything is significant and there for a