![]() ![]() “I’ve watched you these six months becoming a whole different person,” he tells Louisa, “someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. ![]() Louisa, for her part, helps Will to overcome his self-centeredness, his bitterness, and even his depression. Over the course of the book, Will opens Louisa’s horizons: to opera (shades of Pretty Woman), travel, and her own potential. Will, before his accident, was, in his own words, a self-centered “arse” and a callous womanizer after his accident, he is consumed with bitterness. ![]() Louisa at the start of the novel is a lower-middle-class woman afraid to dream beyond her small English town and bland, exercise-crazed boyfriend. Even beyond the damaged hero, though, Me Before You functions as a romance because it’s about two people falling in love, and becoming more complete, and more themselves, while doing so. ![]()
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