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I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.

This remark by Holly, during her first full conversation with the narrator, establishes Holly as someone unwilling to submit to the status quo and encapsulates her restless nature. It speaks to her refusal to conform to societal expectations and her determination to live life on her own terms, even if that means enduring uncertainty and upheaval. This quality of Holly’s is attractive to some people, like the narrator and Joe Bell, but repellent to others, like Mag Wildwood and Madame Sapphia Spanella. Holly is replying to the narrator, who has just opined that “you can get used to anything.” The narrator provides a more conventional foil to Holly’s eccentricity and resolution to not to settle into the mundane.

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