Normal People: The Scripts

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However the introduction to these explains that these screenplays are based on the way the series Normal People was broadcast rather than the actual shooting script they used while they were filming it. Connell and Marianne both appeared for the first time in print in a story that Sally Rooney published in a 2016 issue of the literary journal The White Review. She was the editor of the Stinging Flyin 2018 and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library from 2019–20. Independent reading practices emphasize the process of making meaning through reading, not an end product. Where Connell, for all his passionate responses to the books he reads, struggles to explain his thoughts to the more confident middle-class students in his university, Marianne can bluff with the best of them.

Rooney is] a master of the kind of millennial deadpan that appears to skewer a whole life and personality in a sentence or two. Of course, the specifics of Ireland’s financial crisis don’t necessarily work their way into Normal People, but the general awareness surrounding economic disparity that the crisis created ultimately serves as an appropriate backdrop for Connell’s experience as a working-class student attending university alongside wealthy, privileged students. Sally Rooney is the author of the novelsConversations with Friends,Normal People andBeautiful World, Where Are You.

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Normal People, both as novel and TV show, lays bare not simply the thrill of first love, of finding someone who actually sees you, but, more interestingly, how the way in which others see you can affect the way you act.

The complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated drama based on Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel.