In "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson, social network plays an important role in Cayce life as all the information she got even the small clue to reach up to Stella she got it with the help of her friends on her forum such as parkaboy and even her mom is not physically present in this novel because we don't get any direct dialogue from her mother all we know about her is from her emails sent to Cayce so we can say social network or internet help Cayce to be closer to her mom and tells reader what is going on between them. Even though Cayce doesn't like to read her mother emails because she always reminds her of her father and whether he died or not in September 11 attack . "He took a duck in the face, clossing her eyes./eventually she has to open her"(184) this quote of Cayce describes her attitude towards her mother and it signifies that internet helps their family bond to remain strong as if there would have been no email then they wouldn't have any contacts between them.
Another great example of social network in this novel is that it brings people from different and far away places closer it acts like a dryer because if you put clothes in dryer they start shrinking so I think in same way it shrink down the whole world. Cayce used forum in this novel as it is her body part and try to check her emails on every possible time she can get. Most of the information she gets in this novel is with the help of emails which parkaboy sends her everyday sitting in Chicago. Now the question arises from this is that how does she trust parkaboy as they never saw each other except at the end of this novel but she still believe in him more than the people around her. This amazed me when I just started reading the novel and made me doubt her trusting skills but at the end I was astonished to see that Cayce was right because all the people around her betrayed her and parkaboy instead stayed with her and ultimately Cayce ended up with him.
So we can say that social network is main thing with which all the knots are tied and Cayce uses that to find out about the mystery behind that segment. she even contacted Stella and Nora though the email she received and I think communication through their emails brought them so closer that Stella even invited her to meet with her sister even though that posses threat to Stella family "From anyone who might wish to use us to hurt him. You must understand, these precautions are not unusual, for a man like my uncle"(p307). Stella came to know more about Chayce through internet and she also finds out that chayce lost her father in terrible accident much like they lost their parents during bombing and ultimately Stella felt like Chayce is also one of them so at last she lets chacye to meet Nora.
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