Workaholic Natasha’s Characteristics a. Independent
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For Natasha being an introvert person, Sophie and others feel pity of her. They want to help Natasha solve her problems but they do not know what they have
to do on her because she barely tells her problems and her private life openly. It is verified from what Sophie and other Natasha’s friend said about her.
“She’d avoided discussing her love life foe so long, it was like speaking Vietnamese. But her need to talk over-whelmed her.” 154
“Lainey grinned. Everyone knew Natasha never had a boyfriend, and even she did, they would be the last to know, so unwilling was she to discuss her
private life.” 114 Natasha is used to being an introvert person because she is not confident
enough on her appearance and her skill to attract people on her. Actually she doesn’t like being compared with Sophie by others. She considers that Sophie is better than
her in appearance and in holding relationship with others especially with men. She hardly sees her strength and good points on her that she is cleverer, more prosperous
than Sophie, and as elegant as her. She doesn’t like someone examines and criticizes her life or what she does.
“Tasha Live a little, girl. Come on Why can’t you be more like Sophie,living for the moment instead of always worrying about appearances?”
“Sophie can dance,” Natasha said with a mysterious smile. “I can’t.” …. “I do enjoy my self,” Natasha said calmly. “I just don’t like dancing. So piss
off Nikolai.” 90-91
Sometimes Natasha cannot enjoy the time when she is with her friends because she is used to being quiet. Therefore many friends of her rarely know her
deeply. For example, when they played their favorite game If I were You, and asked about country which describes each person, they preferred that Natasha be described
as Switzerland which was actually different from what Natasha thought of herself.
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She can’t believe why her friends don’t recognize what kind of person she is actually. “Everyone continued chatting and laughing while Natasha sat there feeling as
if she’d been slapped across the face. Switzerland. She always thought of herself as somewhere like Italy, or maybe Ireland. Artistic and full of depth.
But Andy associated her with the land of cuckoo clocks and banks, a land where, she’d read, there was a byelaw preventing men from peeing standing
up after ten at night.” 69
It is hard for Natasha to be an introvert person that she actually does not mean to be. She only wants that everyone will understand her as what she is, and allow her
to keep for herself what she wants to.