Unknown

The entire premise of Still Me rests in Louisa’s willingness to branch out into unknown territory. She moves to New York to start working at a new job in a new city with new people. In the first line of the novel, she states, “It was the mustache that reminded me I was no longer in England” (1). This serves as a reminder that even small details about life in America is unfamiliar to Louisa, like customs and ways of presenting oneself. Louisa completely puts herself out on a limb in an effort to improve her life.

Much of Louisa’s ambition to explore all that life has to offer stems from Will Traynor’s final wish for Louisa to “live [her] own dream” (353). At the beginning of the novel, Louisa is unsure of what exactly she desires out of life. She decides to survey many...