- 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
Right before this passage, Nao refuses to go on more “dates”, or sexual encounters with men, and Babette tells her that she would then have to stop hanging around at the café. Nao tries to protest against Babette’s manipulation of her, but she’s shut down by Babette’s anger and by the threat that Babette, too, will abandon her.
Nao’s loneliness is caused by her lack of communication with her parents, who seem to have failed as her caretakers. Since Nao’s “home life was a disaster,” she feels completely abandoned and alone. This seems to make her fear that her “only…