The book Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell is about a girl named Cath, who is obsessed with fan fiction for a series called Simon Snow. Cath, and her twin sister Wren’s childhood had been basically all about Simon Snow. Their room was filled with Simon Snow posters, and a lot of their clothes had to do with Simon Snow in some way or another. When it came time for Cath and Wren to go to college, Wren becomes extremely social and leaves Simon Snow behind. Cath can’t let go and stays in her dorm room, writing on her extremely popular Simon Snow fan fiction account. Cath spends her time worrying about her slightly mentally unstable dad who is living along without Cath and Wren to take care of him, or just trying to stay out of the whole social situation at her college. Cath is timid and her only friends at college is her roommate, Reagan, and Cath’s boyfriend, Levi. Cath is obviously having a very hard time at college and there are also some symbols that reflect what college is like generally, and also in just Cath's opinion.
One thing that symbolizes the struggle that Cath is having is the Simon Snow book called Carry On that Cath is writing on her fan fiction account. In the book we get to hear a great deal of the book that Cath is writing and many of the events in the book match up to the events in Cath's life in some way. For example, in the book Carry On, the main character, Simon Snow, falls in love with his roommate Baz. Baz is not exactly interested in him anymore and wants nothing to do with him. This is like Cath and Wren in some sort. Cath feels like Wren is being distant and almost doesn’t even want to relate with Cath anymore. Cath still thinks as Wren as her best friend, which is a problem because Wren hardly even thinks of Cath at all. Cath is writing this book not for an audience, but as more of a diary for herself. She gets to tell people her feelings without them even knowing who she is. This has helped her get through college.
Cath feels so strongly connected to her writing, because in a sense, she is writing about herself more than Simon Snow and Baz. When her friends make fun of her closeness with this book, Cath takes it personally, because when people offend Carry On, its almost like they are offending her. Cath is the book in a sense because of how it is her diary. Just as Levi is starting to get to love Cath, he starts to love Carry On as well. Cath has a special connection to the book that she is writing and no one can take that away from her.
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