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Post A:
One theme within the book is adversity. Troy faces many tough situations and handles them all in a half humor/half self hating way. This can be seen in several quotes in the book. When he is at a restaurant he finds the waitress attractive. “Any minute now the waitress is going to come over and see me perspiring like I’ve just run the New York city marathon. I imagine her face as she hands me the bill. I grimace” (9). In this moment he is dreading not only the present moment, but also the possible future. he is also reflecting on how he has never had a girlfriend.