The Abundance of Katherines: Katherine I

I'm going to dicuss the significance of Katherine I in this blog post. I think, though Colin and Katherine were both young, Katherine expanded Colin as a person. It even explains how she was asking him "why?" after everything he was saying about his studies. I think the author was trying to show how stiff and structured and black and white Colin is. Katherine I seems nothing like that. She intorduced Colin to the real world and maybe helped him realize a few thing. Narrating for Colin, the novel states, "it occured to Colin that the kiss didn't feel nearly as good as the sound of her asking if she could be his girlfriend." I think that Colin might be seeking power. He hasn't really had any control or power over himself, he is just expected to be the genius that everyone thinks he is. I don't even think that he himself realizes that he's craving control. He may already think he has control. Sure, he has control over most of his life, and he probably thinks over all of it. But does he really have control of his competitiveness to achieve? I think he'll always care more about success in the books than success in reality and relationships and he doesn't realize that. At least not yet.