Never Elsewhere Neil Gaiman Analysis

I have just finished reading an amazing book by Neil Gaiman, called “Neverwhere”. It tells the story of a young man – Richard Mayhew. He has a normal, quiet life, but that is until he finds a girl bleeding on a London sidewalk and decides to help her. After that, his fiancé, friends and family start acting like he does not exist and he is dragged in a world he never knew about. London Below – a dark subculture, a world where weird creatures make their living in abandoned subway stations and underground sewers, a world that Richard wants to escape as soon as possible. There, he meets the same girl again. Her name is Door and she is trying to find the person responsible for the brutal murder of her family and take revenge. She and Richard decide to continue their journey together and go through
Her motives are very clear – she wants to take revenge on the person who killed her family and clear her own name. She is my favorite character because of her personality. She is really serious and reserved when it comes to her past, but can act like a little child when the emotions are too strong. Like the author says, “…and she was hugging herself, and shuddering, and crying like a little girl.” (82) and “She hugged him tightly, before seizing the paper bag from him and pulling it open with enthusiasm, like a little kid ripping her Christmas present open.” (283). These are only a few of the many quotes in the book that show how childishly Door can act when she is too shocked or excited. She might act like a child, but that is exactly what she is – a child forced to grow up too soon and not being able to cope with it. Her companions, Richard and Hunter, are almost complete strangers to her, but she still trusts them and gets attached to them in the end. Door is important, because every book needs its complex secondary character, to guide the main character through the plot and keep it going and that’s exactly what she