Would calling him "Greg" invite him to call her "Liz" and/or bring up discussion on the subject? Elizabeth seems to operate a lot on pushing stuff out of her head and preferring not to think about topics that are uncomfortable. This would be a big one.
Does she project some idea of how she feels onto Gregory? Like does she prefer to think that he would be as uncomfortable "settling in" to the idea of nicknames as she is because she connects that with being okay with the American way of doing things? Interestingly, she and Gregory can't really connect at all in a Russian sense, like she can with Phil, so I got the sense they connected in more of an anti-American sense, or at least that they both were so unhappy with the way things were in the US. Gregory having that same level of discomfort she does with being there would be something she'd connect with, nicknames just being another example, IMHO.
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Date: 2013-08-04 02:42 pm (UTC)Would calling him "Greg" invite him to call her "Liz" and/or bring up discussion on the subject? Elizabeth seems to operate a lot on pushing stuff out of her head and preferring not to think about topics that are uncomfortable. This would be a big one.
Does she project some idea of how she feels onto Gregory? Like does she prefer to think that he would be as uncomfortable "settling in" to the idea of nicknames as she is because she connects that with being okay with the American way of doing things? Interestingly, she and Gregory can't really connect at all in a Russian sense, like she can with Phil, so I got the sense they connected in more of an anti-American sense, or at least that they both were so unhappy with the way things were in the US. Gregory having that same level of discomfort she does with being there would be something she'd connect with, nicknames just being another example, IMHO.