He likes Elizabeth with a little extra fat and has a thing for obese women, which is clear because he watches porn featuring obese women. Tom is Elizabeth’s boyfriend, husband and finally ex-husband. Mel and Elizabeth lose contact at a part in time, though they reconnect at the ending of the book. She enjoys male attention, which is a trait she carries her whole life. Instead of hating her body, she embraces it, believing that she is curvy and attractive. She is the same age as Elizabeth and equally overweight. She is extremely self-conscious and thinks of herself very lowly.
Elizabeth has many nicknames that can be explained as different phases of her life: “Lizzy”, “Beth” “Elizabeth” and finally “Liz”.
She then developed the same habit with her best friend, Mel. She grew up eating at MacDonald’s and other fast food restaurants together with her mother. Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĮlizabeth is the main character of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Fatness is a state of mind, and in Lizzie’s world, the girls who live there can’t stop quietly torturing their own kind.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. The title is a nod to Wallace Stevens’ poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” in which he wrote about “the beauty of inflections” and “the beauty of innuendoes.” Replace beauty with pain and you have a summary of Lizzie’s social interactions: when other girls aren’t taking digs at her (“You’re very salady,” one judges while she diets), she’s flinging them back (“Must make you hungry,” Lizzie says to a zaftig salon worker rubbing yogurt on her arms). Over the course of a decade, she loses half her body weight–and all her interests outside of diet and exercise, not to mention most of her friendships. But in her insightful debut novel, Mona Awad doesn’t try on positivity maxims like “Big is beautiful” or “Weight is just a number.” Instead, she explores how living in a body you loathe can be misery.Īwad’s Lizzie is an overweight teen who loves vampires, fairy tales and David Lynch movies. Recent discourse about body image has aimed to empower women who don’t fit the mold of svelte beauty.
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