Peggy and Lucy

The book of Lucy has many important relationships in it; Mirah and Lucy, Lucy and her mother, and especially Lucy and Peggy. Their relationship is very important because Lucy considers Peggy one of her best friends. As we all know, best friends can mean the world, if they are the right ones. The character of Peggy is a little shady because she lets Lucy and herself do many illegal things, such as smoking marijuana. While they do this a lot, Peggy then goes and tries to protect Lucy from being with Paul because Peggy knows that its a bad idea. This contrast shows that Peggy does care what Lucy does, but there is a strange limit she puts on her care. When a friend puts a limit on how much they care about their 'friend' it pulls out the question of whether they are worth it. A reason that this is important is because Lucy admires Peggy in the sense that Peggy wants to get away from her house, just like Lucy. Peggy is living the life that Lucy wants, but Lucy can never achieve Peggy's 'art life' because Lucy has many obligations to Mirah. Even though I have not finished the book, I am afraid that if Lucy admires Peggy too much, then Lucy will drive to bad situations to be considered 'even' to Peggy. I think Lucy is a good person, even Peggy, but they seem like this because they both have a driving sense to figure out who they are. When there are two friends like this, its a journey that can make or break either of them.