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An Armchair Analysis of It Ends With Us’s Ellen DeGeneres Obsession
The now-disgraced daytime talk-show host is referenced three times in flashbacks without much explanation.
Early in the novel, readers learn that Lily Blossom Bloom, the irritatingly named aspiring florist played onscreen by Lively, was too embarrassed to keep a traditional diary as a teen and so wrote all of her thoughts and secrets to Ellen DeGeneres. As a younger Lily, played by newcomer Isabela Ferrer, gets ready for school, we glimpse a diary entry that begins with “Dear Ellen,” and there’s a huge Finding Nemo poster prominently displayed in her room. An irresponsible armchair diagnosis of this Ellen fixation could point to the fact that, as a young woman, Lily routinely watched her father Andrew (Kevin McKidd) physically abuse her mother Jenny (Amy Morton).
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