Sheridan Lebowitz

About
A friend to Reenah. Sheridan is everything to Reenah that Lauren is not. While Lauren is unable to cope with the changes her life, Sheridan is prepared to aid Reenah in any way she can. Sheridan is much more understanding, more forgiving, more friendly to Reenah and her emotional transformation. Sheridan is not much of an angel on the shoulder; rather, she’s a sense of comfort and warmth that Reenah values quite a bit.

At the same time, Sheridan carries an unhealthy resentment towards Reenah. Reenah is, at the beginning, everything that Sheridan wants to be: carefree, happy, in love with her family and her friends. Sheridan is a working mom in a relatively lifeless marriage, working her fingers to the bone to keep her family fed and together. She is usually exhausted and afraid of leisure and relaxation, because her family lives paycheck-to-paycheck. This fear and anxiety does a lot of the shaping of her relationship with Reenah and Lauren. So, too, does her motherhood: she has an emotional understanding of her two friends that they both lack of her and each other, so she is often the grounding point form which her friends can try and solve their problems.

Seeing Reenah suffer the way that she is and being unable to truly help is deeply troubling to Sheridan. She tries very hard to be understanding and comforting to her friend, and she always goes through the steps. But she has an internal anger that is comprised of her old envy of Reenah and a new resentment of not being able to help her. While Sheridan is always by Reenah’s side physically, it’s clear that by the end, there is only one draw to Reenah for her: loyalty to the friend she once was.