Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Woman in Cabin 10, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Entrapment and Isolation
Perception vs. Reality
Trauma, Mental Illness, and Resilience
Ambition and Compassion
Wealth and Power
Summary
Analysis
Lo wakes up after a few hours of sleep. Before she leaves to catch the train, she and Judah have a fight. Jude reaffirms that he loves Lo and wants her to move in, but Lo can’t envision the future and refuses to deal with it right now. She walks out of the flat “reeling like [she] was half-drunk.”
Talk of the future has touched a nerve with Lo, since she’s still struggling to deal with what’s just happened, and she’s barely slept in days. Though she loves Jude, she pushes him away.
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