LoveSick Erica Character Analysis

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Erica is one of the main characters in LoveSick by Jake Coburn. She is a freshman in college; the daughter of a very wealthy father who is over protective of her. She is also bulimic.

Story

In LoveSick, Erica's father hires Ted, a former basketball player whose hopes and scholarship for college basketball vanished in a drunk driving accident. Ted is suppose to spy on Erica in her freshman year, in return for a free ride through college. The two soon find themselves at a snooty private college where the only real friends they make are each other. Ted is nervous conducting his spying, but he is reassured by Erica's father's agent Michael who threatens harm if Ted refuses to complete his end of the deal.

Erica does not fare much better the first time "alone" from her over protective father, whose protection she despises. In addition to Ted, her father pays for private sessions from a psychiatrist, which Erica, first unwillingly conducts, but soon becomes more comfortable pouring out her feelings to someone she knows will not share them with her father.

Erica soon becomes friends with Ted, and thinks that he is her only "real" friend in college, and also in her life.

Erica also takes Prozac at the request of her psychiatrist. However, she finds out that alcohol and Prozac do not mix well after she forgot everything that happened the last night when she wakes up..

Bulmic

Erica life

rich girl turned bad by wather wanting to help