The Rules of Attraction essays

The Rules of Attraction essays Main characters - Lauren, Victor, Paul, Sean, Laura The entire novel is set in a backwards motion, essentially the story moves from end to beginning, but explaining the story of everyone of the characters separately while all leading to the same conclusion. Sean is an angry and cynical person who deals drugs and falls in love with Lauren, at the beginning of Sean's story he receives a love letter who he believes to be from Lauren. After going through a small deal of having a gun held to his head by his drug supplier Sean goes around trying to collect money people owe him to pay back his supplier. The story then switches to Paul's story where him and Sean meet at what's called the Edge of the World party. After this comes morning, this is where Sean and Lauren meet after walking to a class that ends up canceled. At this point you can see that Sean and Lauren have chemistry, this is the first time we notice love in the novel. That night Lauren and Laura are talking about the nights party, Lauren looks through a book of venereal diseas es to deter from having sex. This is also when we first learn of Lauren's love for Victor, who is in Europe to study abroad. At the party Paul and Sean meet up and talk, and then they go back to Paul's room to smoke some "pot". They disappear and the novel moves to Lauren and Laura talking about where Sean and Paul went. This is the point where we find out that Paul has feelings for Sean, the strangest part of this segment is that while Sean is smoking pot, Paul begins to masturbate and fantasize about Sean, while Sean is lightly passes out. The next morning Sean goes back to his mailbox to find another love letter, he still believes this to be from Lauren. That night the story goes to Lauren and Laura sitting around their room sniffing cocaine talking about Sean and how Lauren is starting to fall for him. At almost that exact same time, Paul calls Sean and Sean has no idea w ...