Daisys Valentine and Juggernaut

“Daisy’s Valentine” and “Juggernaut” are stories highlighting the lives of different characters and yet the overall image you capture could be two sides of the same person.  Kirby and the narrator’s Ed is as obsessive and out of touch with reality as Joey in “Daisy’s Valentine.”  Both characters have what seems to be an irrational need for another person whether that person is outside of themselves or simple another side of themselves.  Either way they both plunge themselves whole heartedly into this other image they have created.
The character of Ed in “Juggernaut” seems to fall out of societal norms just as Joey does.  Neither character has any real sense of propriety.  Their life is their own and they go about their business not understanding why people give them nasty looks.
Both live their life with passion for different things.  The “heart” in both of these stories comes not from the characters themselves but from the way they are portrayed in living their lives.  They seem to be people who we meet everyday and yet just a little off-based to what we expect.  In a sense they draw us in not because of who they are but because of what they’re doing; because of how they’re doing it.
You feel a connection not specifically with any of the characters but with the situations that they’re facing and the emotions that they feel.  As a reader you are pulled in and unwillingly experience empathy for a situation you know you will never experience.  You feel for characters that you would normally walk by in everyday life.