![]() Throughout the story, the narrator reflects on his relationships and behavior. He also admits to experiencing bouts of paranoia, further complicating the reliability of his narrative. The narrator is self-absorbed and narcissistic, which makes it hard for the audience to trust his point of view. The novel, Diary of an Oxygen Thief, is told retrospectively by a narrator who looks back at his actions after he has been hurt. He writes this book in the hopes that it will be published before her photos, to avoid the humiliation he feels. At the end of their relationship, she humiliates him and the narrator realizes that she hates him. She convinces him to move to New York, but she treats him very coldly. There he meets a beautiful young photographer’s assistant named Aisling in New York and falls in love with her. But soon he gets bored and unhappy with his job and the Midwesterners. The narrator moves to Saint Lacroix, Minnesota, and buys a house there. He begins to attend AA meetings and gets a stable job as an advertising executive, staying away from women for five years. Once he hits a girl which may have been the reason he decided to join AA. He gets into many drunken bar fights, but these aren’t really fights as much as him insulting large men and getting hurt. He invites these women to his 30th birthday party, but gets so drunk that he doesn’t remember anything. Then he goes through a series of women, trying to get them to fall in love with him and then ignoring them. He then starts emotionally traumatizing women just for fun. However, he gets bored of her and begins drinking and cheating on her, ultimately ending their relationship. ![]() He talks about his longest relationship with Penelope, who he believes he truly loved. The narrator of the book loves to hurt women emotionally. One of these women, Aisling, is his karmic retribution for his poor treatment of women.īelow is the detailed yet quick summary of the book: Part 1 Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a book that chronicles the narrator’s relationships with women, many of whom he believes he has emotionally traumatized. ![]()
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