High Fidelity chapter 1-6

While reading the opening chapters of High Fidelity, my first impression of Rob was that he liked to talk, think, have sex. Good thing you (Miss P) warned the class, because I had no idea there was this must sex in the book. I'm not really sure if I like him yet or not. His relationships always end up the same way, most of the time with him getting dumped and his woman leaving him for another guy. i don't think the has much self confidence because he is always second guessing himself, never knowing what he wants, and is always comparing himself to the men who steal away his women. But I guess that's human nature as well, because who wouldn't compare themselves to the person your mate is cheating or leaving you for. "Sometimes it seems as though the only way a man can judge his own niceness, his own decency, is by looking at his relationships with women" (Hornby 68) Rob relies on his relationships with women to define who he is. it's like he doesn't really have his own definition for himself, but let's the women in his life create that definition.

Rob's obsession with music is kind of what sends him on an emotional roller-coaster. Music pushes him toward the future, but it also holds him back into his past. He even said so himself when he started crying at Marie LaSalle's concert. "Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time" (Hornby 63) Music for him, in general always seems to have some sort of tie to his past relationships or the ones that he wishes he had.