- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
One of Nomi’s central relationships in the novel is with her boyfriend, Travis. In some way, he’s a good companion: he keeps her company when she’s neglected by Ray and friendless at school, and he helps her experiment with abandoning Mennonite norms. At the same time, he can be shallow, pretentious, and controlling. His unwillingness to support Nomi during moments of emotional vulnerability contrasts with Nomi’s empathy for others, and his pseudo-intellectual pronouncements highlight Nomi’s own humble introspection.
Despite the fact that Nomi is obviously a more mature and sympathetic character, she often feels dependent on and inferior to Travis…