Neil Gaiman's How To Talk To Girls At Parties

If you were at a party with people from another planet would you notice? In Neil Gaiman’s short story “How To Talk To Girls At Parties” Enn, Gaiman’s main character, is trying to come out of this shell and start talking to girls with the help of his best friend Vic, whom is very good at talking to girls. Gaiman introduces many girls to the reader but only later the reader finds out that the girls are all from a different planet than the boys. Enn talks to a few of the extraterrestrial girls but the main one is a pretty pale green-eyed girl Triloet. Triloet comes off as very strange to Enn but he seems to fall into her trap and while he is getting lost in her stories, she is really hypnotizing him. Triloet describes herself to Enn by saying, “I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.” (Gaiman) This is her way of getting Enn to believe that he can trust her and make him want to engage in a conversation with her. Even though Enn had no idea what she is saying to him he stayed smiling and engrossed in the discussion. The fact that he had no idea what she was talking about and none
Vic was even shaking him “violently” so they could leave and it took him a minuet to come back to reality. Enn even says, “in my head I began to come back from a thousand miles away.” Showing that she had hypnotized him and he was no longer mentally in the real