Denise ends up marrying Jerry, who ends up being fairly successful.
She figures they’re all each other has left. When Ed’s pain would intensify, they would go through each pamphet and allow themselves to believe that the trips would eventually come to fruition.The basket is a methaphor for the painful or difficult realities of our lives that we choose to ignore.
Denise is 22, plain and newly married for one year (to a man who is coincidentally also named Henry). Henry considers leaving Olive, but then dismisses it as unthinkable. But instead of giving in to the unfairness of it all, Olive understands that we can’t succumb completely to the evil. The Piano Player. everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Olive Kitteridge. Olive understands this and knowingly thinks, “Who, who does not have their basket of trips?” She is a much more likeable character than I thought she would be and I have been empathizing with her as the book progresses.One of the last chapters I read is called “Basket of Trips.” In this chapter, Marlene Bonny has just lost her husband and Olive attends the funeral.
Henry even finds her a kitten to raise. She remembers not too long ago she took him to get medicine for his depression.
Though her husband, Ed, was dying, they put together a basket full of pamphlets about trips they believed they would take together in the future.
She was obsessive, unstable and cut herself.
Henry then counters, saying that Christopher left because Olive has always suffocated him. She wants to leave, but her car is boxed in.
Olive asks how he’s doing and confides that her father committed suicide as well. During the wake, Kerry Monroe, the cousin of Ed's widow Marlene, gets drunk and makes a scene. Henry has now passed away, and Olive hopes her own death will be quick.
She thinks to herself that they must think of her as a useless old woman and is suddenly irritable and determined to leave. Olive contents herself with giving Suzanne this minor inconvenience of missing clothes — and gives herself a little burst of happiness — and leaves. She decides to focus on the kind people in her life, and she decides that tomorrow she’ll open up to Joe about a personal issue (she recently found bruises on her mother who’s living at a nursing home). They force Olive and Henry into the hospital bathroom, where they are held hostage. Some may see this story as a painful reminder that life is difficult and tragic, and we simply attempt to distract ourselves from its hideous truths.
(Olive recalls a conversation about tulips, and how their ability to bloom lies in its bulb. Olive admits to him that Christopher hates her too and it is probably her fault, something that she’s never been able to admit to Christopher himself.
The story ends with Olive deciding whether or not to plant tulips again. Through the course of the book, Olive Kitteridge retires and Henry has a stroke and later passes away. But this day, she sees Simon, an old flame, in the crowd and decides to cut things off with Malcolm. Olive wonders if they are related to Jim O’Casey, a former colleague of hers that Olive had fallen for, but never physically cheated with.
I see this weather-worn, intrepid tree trunk as a symbol.
because she found out at the funeral that she slept with Ed. It is Olive Kitteridge's branches spreading out, and being intertwined in
(I think the story is implying that she is going to take these things, burn them and start a fire at the doctor’s office. Olive asks after his brother, a drug addict, and Kevin tells her about his father dying from liver cancer a year prior.As they’re sitting in the car, Olive rushes out because she sees Patty has fallen in the water. Basket of Trips.
Olive wants to comfort Marlene and has some idea of what to say or do, but she’s not in the habit of doing those things and doesn’t quite know how to do it, and so she looks out the window instead. Marlene Bonnie is the wife of the former grocer, Ed Bonnie. Marlene confides to Olive that earlier in the day, Kerry admitted to cheating with Ed once many years ago. She also starts having kleptomaniac tendencies, like stealing a magazine and vase from the doctor’s waiting room. In New York, the house is chatic, but Ann is open and friendly. Harmon and Daisy start talking more instead of having sex, and they chat about the young couple. Basket of Trips: Marlene Bonney's husband dies and Olive attends the funeral. Olive helps Molly to prepare the food and drinks for the after-funeral get together. It is full of brochures full of trips Marlene and her husband would look over, pretending they would go … Henry, again, tries to comfort her.
Like Olive, Jim had been married with children.