The happiest person
When Roger asked Alice out, she felt like “the happiest person in the whole earth, in the whole galaxy, in all of God’s creation”. Everything, even things she had never paid attention to before, looked better. The grass had “never smelled grassier” and the sky had “never seem so high”. She even bought a diary because she thought at last she’d have “something wonderful and great and worthwhile to say”. This imagery was used to describe how elated and full of hopes a teenager could be when asked out by a crush.
Alice’s daily routine
Alice was a usual teenager who hated school. Every day looked just like a previous one and it seemed to her that there was nothing good in her life. “The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same dumb school.” Everything was “dull”. She mused on her depression and decided that it could be a part of becoming an adult. She was growing up and life was becoming “more blasé”. Courtesy of this imagery, a reader gets a chance to have a look at the world from the perspective of the depressed teenager.
Games of consciousness
Although Alice decided to stay away from drugs, her consciousness continued playing tricks on her. She was sitting on her bed in her room, absolutely clean, but she was the highest person in the world. Her room suddenly “changed into some kind of underground movie”. Everything was “slow and lazy and the lightening was really weird”. She saw “naked girls were dancing around, making love to statues”. One of those girls “ran her tongue along a statue and he came alive and took her off into the high blue grass”. Everything “was going around” and she was “a shooting star, a comet piercing the firmament, blazing through the sky”. This imagery managed to create both an uneasy and mesmerizing feeling. The mere thought that your own consciousness could do it to you is a frightening possibility.
