Charlie's Denial In Nightmares ! By Jason Segel

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In “Nightmares!” by Jason Segel, the main character’s qualities contribute to the novel’s theme by showing how Charlie’s denial of his mother’s death affects his relationships and how he deals with that.
One example of this is in the towards the beginning of the book, where he comments on his father’s appearance: “Charlie despised it. It didn’t fit with his dad’s chunky black glasses---and it made him seem like a whole different person.” He compares his father’s appearance and that he hardly recognizes the father he once knew before his mother died.
Towards the end of the book, he isn’t AS annoying, but now he’s super sappy towards everyone and I find it to be too much of a blatant good/evil resolution. “It’s perfect,” he marveled. “I still

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