As the days go by, however, they find pleasure in one another’s company, and continue sitting together. Eleanor and Park are thrust together by chance when they are forced, one fateful day, to sit together on the school bus-even though Park worries that sitting with the redheaded, crazily-dressed new girl is social suicide. The novel’s deeper layers, however, show how Eleanor and Park, through their explorations of love and intimacy, actually learn not just how to care for and bond with another person, but also how to discover and embrace more intimate truths about themselves. Through their journey, Rowell argues that true love can enable people to connect not just with others, but also to reach a greater level of understanding and intimacy of and with themselves.Įleanor and Park is a love story, and like a traditional romance, it centers around the burgeoning connection between its two protagonists. As the spiny, self-contained Eleanor Douglas and the starry-eyed Park Sheridan embark on their first real foray into romance, they learn a lot about how to best love and care for one another-and for themselves. Eleanor and Park-like Romeo and Juliet, the play the novel’s titular characters are studying in their sophomore English class-is a story about first love in all its overwhelming, all-consuming glory.
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