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Louisa (nicknamed Lou) Clark is a 26-year-old working-class girl. Louisa is described as a very unique character by the author. Up until she was fourteen, Louisa preferred boy’s clothes over girls and then went on to discover her own one of a kind style. Her father describes her as a character and her mother refers to her as an individual. Louisa is the type of woman who isn’t afraid to speak her mind regardless. Before losing her job, she worked for Frank for the last six years of her life at the Buttered Bun until he announced that he was returning to Australia to care for his ill father. Louisa becomes desperate for another job and would be willing to do anything. After, many failed attempts, she lands a position as a “care assistant” to a sharp, clever, wealthy and angry 35-year-old man named Will Traynor, who has spent the last two years of his life as a …show more content…

It is Will’s mother, Camilla, who hires Lou, and she does so out of pure hopelessness. She knows her son is miserable and tired of his care-dependent life. Will gave his parents six months before he has opted for his own death. Will’s mother has already employed a nurse to attend to Will’s medical needs, but she hopes that somehow Lou might boost his optimism.

Lou really contemplates with herself about this job and whether she’s good enough to care for a man like Will, but her family’s financial difficulties allow her no choice. As she gets to know her argumentative patient, Lou slowly wrestles with her own passivity. “Shoved up so hard against someone else’s life,” she reflects. “forces you to rethink your idea of who you are.” Lou hasn’t lived her life to its potential; Will, however, has but no longer can. Before his accident, Will, thrived in doing adventurous activities. After the accident,

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