Alaska's Labyrinth

Throughout the story, Alaska constantly brings up the idea of a labyrinth or a 'maze of life'. For example, the quote, "Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present" (Green 240). Many instances in the story Alaska mentions the uncertainty of how to escape the labyrinth and even the uncertainty to understand what the labyrinth is. In my opinion, each character has his or her own labyrinth constricting their life. Each one must recognize the labyrinth and try to escape it. Not each character is able to escape it in a constructive way, for example, Alaska 'commits suicide' before she truly gets to discover her life's labyrinth.