Havrilesky's readers have spent their lives juggling perfectionism and easygoingness, self-acceptance and obsessive self-improvement, conventional emotional steeliness and feminist-sanctioned forms of emotional intensity.
But isn't it a little depressing to think we are somehow incapable of inventing forms of emotional life based on anything other than subjugation?
It is marked by fluctuating mood swings that are often accompanied by other forms of emotional disturbance like eating disorders, severe anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders or substance abuse.
And you can see why M and W, who deftly use very different forms of emotional blackmail, want John as someone whose very fate they can determine.
The expressive crowd has also been called the dancing crowd because its manifestations are dancing, singing, and other forms of emotional expression.
Such a withholding gesture is typical of "The Banyan Tree," which is primarily concerned with the compromises, secrets and other forms of emotional accommodation that make up daily life.
