I know everyone is sad about her not evolving, but it doesn't mean that she won't ever heal. I think the author did a good job showing the cyclic nature of bulimia. I'm also impressed that even after losing the weight, she was never portrayed as supermodel. There's a lot of ways to interpret the ending. You could say she's doomed to be bulimic and die from it, or that she will eventually learn to heal. This story isn't about the heroine, it's about the how eating disorders are a mental illness. No amount of eating or starving will heal the scars underneath. Life has been cruel to the heroine, now cruelty is all she can show to herself. That's why her heart is "fat". It's how she conceives herself, and it will stay like that no matter how big or small she is. Waiting for a prince charming to heal us is never the solution, waiting for fantasies to come to us won't work either. It's a very cruel world. I wish us all happiness.
I know everyone is sad about her not evolving, but it doesn't mean that she won't ever heal. I think the author did a good job showing the cyclic nature of bulimia. I'm also impressed that even after losing the weight, she was never portrayed as supermodel.
There's a lot of ways to interpret the ending. You could say she's doomed to be bulimic and die from it, or that she will eventually learn to heal. This story isn't about the heroine, it's about the how eating disorders are a mental illness. No amount of eating or starving will heal the scars underneath. Life has been cruel to the heroine, now cruelty is all she can show to herself. That's why her heart is "fat". It's how she conceives herself, and it will stay like that no matter how big or small she is. Waiting for a prince charming to heal us is never the solution, waiting for fantasies to come to us won't work either. It's a very cruel world. I wish us all happiness.