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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently finished the book as well. After seeing it mentioned all over BookTok, I felt compelled to read it. I didn’t love it!

I understand it to be a philosophical think piece, but it didn’t land for me. Sure, I had questions: Who? What? Where? Why? But from a psychological standpoint, and coming from someone who worksas a psych major and as someone who works in the field) everything else makes complete sense, especially when considering everything we know about the mind and psyche. 
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I didn't think the where, when, why mattered at all to the book. To me it was about what it means to create your identity and live your life and interpret your desires and find purpose without cultural influence or society or even company. [/quote]
I’m not sure she exists outside culture or society—she’s formed within the bunker’s own distorted version of both. That world provides her first language of fear, routine, and relationship. When she later loses it, she experiences the same rupture the older women felt upon entering the cage: the loss of a shared framework that made the self coherent.[/quote]

I thought she's very much outside the culture of the bunker both in experience and ability. She is forming her own identity in part in opposition to the women but also as someone whose formative experiences are relatively blank until she encounters the cage. I agree, maybe not without culture or society but within and opposed to one that is fractured and partial. [/quote]

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