This book is all about actress Evelyn Hugo’s story. It describes the stages of her life from hell’s kitchen to Hollywood.
The title may sound like she is explaining her marriages and husbands. But it’s more than that. Evelyn describes the lessons of life that everyone should know.
Let’s see the character analysis of the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
1.The first one explains the opportunities. “When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The word doesn’t give things, you take things.”
The book says deeper things that touch your soul about the political issues, racism, sexism etc. After entering Hollywood, Evelyn Hugo has to let go of her identity. She has to decide to lose her identity to get famous in Hollywood. Since she lived in a man’s world, she chose to lose her identity by bleaching blonde to amaze the men.
She knows her worth more than anybody else. When the media surrounded her by rooting her whole family, she used that to carve her and entered heights in Hollywood. She is been represented as adamant, and selfish. But these things didn’t stop her from becoming successful.
2.“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth when you can show yourself to them when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy.”
She said that she had toxic relationships. She had boyfriends who put sex first rather than her feelings. Staying in a long-distance relationship also didn’t work for her. She also mentioned that the physical relationship between her affairs was great but that is all it exists in her relationship.
The real intimation is definitely harder to find. Being yourself is important in any relationship even if you show the other person about your ugly side, they should welcome you with it. But finding something like that has become a tedious process in a relationship.
3.“I’m bisexual. Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.”
Evelyn was discriminated against many times for being bisexual. She explains in this chapter about her sixth husband and how he treated her for being bisexual.
The scar that surrounds bisexuality has not to be carried away. She also talks about lesbian and LGBTQ communities.
4.“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
Her fourth husband kept his choices first rather than considering hers. She also said that people tell anything to get the things done as per their wants.
5.“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
Even though she is a lot of things, her determination toward her goals didn’t make her stop. She came across all the odds and succeeded in her life. In the men’s world, she stood for herself and became a successful woman in her carrier.
6.“You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”
She says that the deeper you go, the higher you can fly. She has always been fond of writing. She realised her writing skills after losing her employment and decided to rediscover them.
She launched a business based on writing for an entertainment news company.
7.“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
When her first husband left her, she was devastated. But to overcome a failed marriage she has to go through a lot. Then later, she realized that she picked the wrong guy. It is not that her intentions were bad. The choice she made choosing him was bad.
Will the novel “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” become a movie?
This novel is been created as a movie by Netflix. The title of the movie is “Little Fires Everywhere”. The book has provided a huge success and it expects to be the same response for the movie too.