Patchett was capable of making the readers picture her story as it was being told , it was very easy to use your imagination as a reader and create the characters she was describing in her story. I liked how she made her characters strong young women. Lucy amazed me the way she looked at her glass being half full and did not allow her physical appearance to control what she can and cannot do in life. My question is, if she saw her friend Lucy going down a hurtful path, why didn’t she try harder to prevent it? Or did she already know that Lucy is so hopelessly in love that it did not make sense to even try?