Ghost World Essay

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Ghost World is a comic book written and illustrated by Daniel Clowes. A commercial and critical success, it was very popular with teenage audiences on its initial release and developed into a cult classic. Ghost World follows the day-to-day lives of best friends Enid Coleslaw (formerly "Cohn") and Rebecca Doppelmeyer, two pessimistic, pseudo-intellectual and erratically witty teenage girls who recently graduated from high school. They spend their days drifting aimlessly around their unnamed American town, criticizing popular culture and the people they encounter while wondering what they will do for the rest of their days. As the comic progresses and Enid and Rebecca make the transition into adulthood, the two develop tensions and drift apart. A darkly written comic, with intermittently somber explorations of friendship and modern life, Ghost World has become famous for its guileless treatment of youth. Ghost World takes place in an unnamed town. The town plays a key part in the story, as it is regularly mocked and criticized by Enid and Rebecca. As the story progresses, the locale changes considerably. The phrase "Ghost World" is seen by the characters several times spray painted on garage doors, signs, and billboards for some implicit reason. An interpretation of the phrase “ghost world” is that it illustrates the fact that in today’s society, everyone seems to be living in their personal world, thus making the objective world a “ghost” world. It could signify the existence of people and things on the fringe of normal people’s idea, similar to flickering images on a television set. The term can also be interpreted to indicate the way both Enid and Becky, but especially Enid, are haunted by the

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