Meanwhile, David and Sara's relationship continues to develop until they engage in multiple acts of sex, the first for both of them Sara is reluctant, but David presses her to acquiesce. When the first paper is due for "From Ahab to Prufrock," he helps her write a paper on the theme of scopophilia in Henry James' Daisy Miller. In the process, he also stalks Veronica across campus, following her to courses such as "Gender and the Consumerist Impulse" and "From Ahab to Prufrock: Tragically Flawed Hero(in)es in American Literature." While his relationship with Sara becomes more serious, David remains obsessed with Veronica, who he learns (from her Facebook photos) is dating an attractive, wealthy senior, Liam, from one of the school's final clubs. Once he realizes that Sara is Veronica's dorm-mate, David dates her in order to get closer to Veronica. David quickly and unhappily begins to make unpopular friends very similar to those he had in high school. Loner is a 2016 American novel by Teddy Wayne that explores the themes of toxic masculinity, sexual assault, ambition, socioeconomic stratification, and social media saturation in a campus novel setting.Ī lonely, awkward, newly arrived Harvard University student from New Jersey, David Federman-described by one of his high school teacher's as "something of a loner"-becomes fixated on another first-year student, a Manhattan girl named Veronica Morgan Wells.
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