Pat Peoples Pioneer of His Own Reality

     For my Second Quarter book I began to favor Pat from Silver Linings Playbook by Mathew Quick, but at the beginning of the book I found him so bloody annoying because his whole motivation to get better after he was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder, charged with assault against the history teacher that his wife was cheating on him with, and was put in a mental institution for 4 years was to get back with his cheating wife after he got out of the mental hospital.Pat Peoples is a person who is lost in his own sense of reality, but he doesn't realize it until it is shoved in his faith. He doesn't realize the amount time that went by and he starts his journey into what really happened after he meets Tiffany. Tiffany became the person who Pat is able empathize with because she is equally screwed up due to her husbands death and depression. They gave each other outlets to express themselves in a nonjudgmental environment and provided friendship for each other. This allowed for Tiffany to stop participating in provocative behavior and Pat to begin to live his own life. Tiffany in her own weird way tries to express her feelings towards Pat by forcing him to realize that his wife is never coming back and he begins to live his own life. Pat's development as a character lead him to become a more likeable person that you can sort of related to because we are all lost in this place we call reality.