Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... a teen-ager who’s totally over it. And by “it,” Enid means everything. It’s the early ‘90s and Enid has just graduated high school with little prospects. Mainly she’s looking forward to another summer spent with her best friend Rebecca, criticizing everyone and everything she encounters. It’s not too hard in a town like theirs, one filled with nothing but shopping malls, fast food, urban decay, and lame-o’s. If she’s left with a spare moment, she might even ponder what she’s going to do with her life. But that isn’t a high priority right now.
Personality... cynical, witty, and judgmental. Enid relishes the role of the outcast, rejecting everything mainstream for a laundry list of reasons she’d be far too happy to list. But not everything can be dismissed with a snarky comment, and that’s where Enid trips up. Beneath the cynical exterior lies the same self-doubt and confusion of your average hyper-aware American teenager.
Get to Know her in...
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A quirky girl tries to figure out what to do now that she had graduated from high school, and forms a friendship with an eccentric 40-year-old record collector after playing a prank on him with her best friend.
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Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realised young women.
