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Holly seemed much older in the book (I don't know the movie)

posted 10 years ago by ekpyrosis-1
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Do you agree with me that Holly in spite of her being that childish, too emotional etc., seemed much older than your average girl the same age living now? I mean - she lived on her own, she took care of herself, she participated in adult activities like she wanted to get married, went on trips with friends, went abroad, had money to spend, for example on buying pieces of furniture - all of those rarely happen in case of teens now. I mean, she lived on her own and didn't need any parental consent for doing this but, to use a Polish idiom, I'll sooner grow a cactus on my hand than believe than an average 18 year old (or a younger girl and she didn't run away from home at 18, don't forget) would be as good as doing that many things on her very own. She generally hung out with much older people so maybe that's why she seemed like a woman of 30 rather than a teen (even an adult one), I mean - she led a life of an adult, she was more interested in adult than teen stuff.

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[–] huwdj 10 years ago

Little while since I read the book but I took Holly's age to be in her early twenties chronologically, but older in terms of experience. Certainly much younger than Audrey Hepburn in the film.

[–] artistathome 9 years ago

I think in the book it mentions she is 19? She seemed like a girl in her mid 20s tho to me, the way he describes her in the book.

[–] tubularbelle2003 10 years ago

She was almost 19 when we first meet her in the book.

The Long Walk stops every year, just once.

[–] juliatbwa1 9 years ago

I don't know that that is a fair assessment. Holly was young, but had not had an easy life. Humans do what they have to to survive. The vast majority of them, then or now, did not live Holly's life and would prob not be able to do the thing she did.

However, if you have no choice, you can make a lot of things happen.