What Happened to Goodbye Themes

Things are not exactly running smoothly for Mclean's family in What Happened to Goodbye. Her parents split up after her mom ran off with Peter Hamilton (the Defreise head coach), and Mclean's resol...

The age-old idiom states that home is where the heart is, but that's hard when you don't have a real place to call home like Mclean in What Happened to Goodbye. She's moved around so much with her...

Mclean (otherwise known as Lizbet, Eliza, Liz, and Beth) has a habit of creating new identities for herself every time she moves in What Happened to Goodbye. In Lakeview though, when she starts to...

Although Mclean's mom doesn't technically abandon her in What Happened to Goodbye, Mclean still feels the sting of betrayal and isolation. As far as she's concerned, when her mom cheated on her bel...

Let's talk about BFFs, shall we? In What Happened to Goodbye, Mclean has pretty much given up on the concept of friends—let alone best friends. As she tells Dave, she doesn't have the kind of fri...

In What Happened to Goodbye, Mclean Sweet is pretty jaded to the whole idea of marriage and romance—even though she's only a high school student. She's just seen her parents' seemingly perfect ma...

There are a lot of lies floating around in What Happened to Goodbye. Even though Mclean seems like a good, forthcoming kid, she's not exactly honest about her personal life—instead she tends to c...

We're not just talking about geographic exploration when it comes to this theme and the characters in What Happened to Goodbye—although Mclean and her dad do move around a lot. No, we're also tal...

Because she and her dad move around so much in What Happened to Goodbye, Mclean never gets to really be a part of a community—but when they move to Lakeview, they can't help but be dragged into t...

Mclean and her dad might not be moving to middle-of-nowhere towns in What Happened to Goodbye, but they're still pretty alone in the world. Whenever they move into a new house, they keep their conn...