Rachel Character Analysis in Such a Fun Age

Rachel is one of Alix’s best friends. Like all the women in Alix’s Manhattan friend group, Rachel is a smart, confident, and snarky woman who balances motherhood with a successful career. Rachel manages a firm that designs book covers. She is Jewish and Japanese, twice divorced, and mother to a five-year-old son, Hudson. When Alix lived in Manhattan, she and her friends would regularly get together to commiserate and drink wine, and Alix misses them greatly when she relocates from Manhattan to Philadelphia. Rachel can be extremely bold and direct. Like the other women in Alix’s friend group, Rachel pays a woman (Arnetta) to care for her children. Rachel, Jodi, and Tamra are celebrating Thanksgiving at Alix’s house on the fateful day that Alix discovers that Emira just so happens to be dating Kelley Copeland, Alix’s high school boyfriend. Alix’s friends only know Alix’s (fabricated) version of Alix’s high school drama with Kelley Copeland and Robbie Cormier, and so they stand by her when she expresses concern over Emira’s relationship with Kelley.

Rachel Character Timeline in Such a Fun Age

The timeline below shows where the character Rachel appears in Such a Fun Age. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...leave just yet. In addition to her blossoming career, she now has a group of girlfriends—Rachel, Jodi, and Tamra—for the first time since college. Alix’s friends have young kids and careers,... (full context)

...down on a bench outside the café. Then she sends a group text to Jodi, Rachel, and Tamra telling them she urgently needs to talk to them. Alix considers her friends.... (full context)

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...call with her friends and tells them about everything that’s happened lately. Everyone is shocked. Rachel thinks none of this would’ve happened in New York. Inwardly, Alix anguishes over how little... (full context)

...quite a few pounds. Alix’s friends then stage “a very kind and very supportive [intervention].” Rachel suggests a juice cleanse. (full context)

...“I hate everyone except my sitter.” Tamra replies that Alix should give Emira a raise; Rachel suggests an Edible Arrangement. That night, Briar falls asleep watching Spoons (her new goldfish) swim... (full context)

...time when she still lived in New York: She and her friends are sitting in Rachel’s backyard to talk, eat pizza, and drink wine. They decide to tell each other their... (full context)

...weeks, and she’s made no progress on her book. None of this matters, though, because Rachel, Jodi, and Tamra are coming to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving. And then Alix will return to... (full context)

...Emira and Peter about the Kelley situation. In the meantime, Tamra volunteers to handle Emira. Rachel notes what a shame the situation is, though, since Emira and Kelley would have such... (full context)

...that it seems like Kelley genuinely likes Emira. And even if Kelley is using Emira, Rachel counters, Emira is a grown woman, and Alix has no say over Emira’s love life.... (full context)