- 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
Rebecca first starts talking about her breakup as if it were happening to someone else. Through the use of second-person narration (i.e., “that’s how you feel”), Kennedy guides the reader to empathize with the protagonist, Rebecca. By phrasing her emotional distress in these terms, Rebecca also distances herself from the pain she’s feeling after their breakup, as if it were happening to someone else. The pain is presented as something “you feel, when it happens,” and so the reader immediately is forced to relate to how Rebecca must be feeling through this sensory description. The two words “peeled” and “flayed”…