![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, the narrator embarks on this project as a kind of hibernation-her “year of rest and relaxation”-under the assumption that she will emerge from her period of rest as a new and improved person. ![]() There is nothing she truly enjoys in life, and existence is a burden. She claims her motives are not suicidal-she simply prefers unconsciousness to consciousness. Despite her many advantages, she is deeply unhappy in her life and, at 26, utterly ambitionless cynical and misanthropic to her core, she has no desire to live.ĭesperate to escape the misery of her daily life, the narrator begins a new personal project: to sleep as much as humanly possible over the next 12 months. With an art history degree from Columbia and a sizable inheritance from her deceased parents, the narrator lives a life of ultimate privilege-she is young, beautiful, wealthy, and plainly intelligent. In June 2000, the novel’s unnamed narrator is working as an assistant at an upscale gallery in Manhattan. This study guide cites the 2019 Penguin Books paperback edition of the text. ![]()
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