Sadie is a student at Trinity College. She helps run the school’s literary journal and encourages Connell’s writing, even convincing him at one point to let her publish one of his stories. She also urges him to apply to a graduate program in Creative Writing in New York. Connell doesn’t think he has a chance, so he applies and is later astounded when he gets into the program.
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Sadie Character Timeline in Normal People
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15. Three Months Later (March 2014)
Connell went to a reading a few weeks ago. A student named Sadie had invited him. She asked what he thought afterwards, and he said that he doesn’t...
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18. Seven Months Later (February 2015)
...in bed. They talk about the night before; Connell got pretty drunk. Marianne says that Sadie has a thing for him, but he doesn’t seem to care, saying she isn’t his...
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...but he defends himself by saying he didn’t think he’d get in. She asks if Sadie knew, and he admits that she did—she was the one who told him to apply...
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