Normal People

People know that Marianne lives in the white mansion with the driveway and that Connell’s mother is a cleaner, but no one knows of the special relationship between these facts. She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her. Marianne is the only one who ever triggers these feelings in him, the strange dissociative feeling, like he’s drowning and time doesn’t exist properly anymore. He just withdrew from her further and further until finally, in a text message, he told her he didn’t want to be her boyfriend anymore.