Rob’s love life can be related to the way his record store is going, often Rob reminisces about his DJ days, just like how he reminisces about his past girlfriends, and he also is unsatisfied with his current performance with his store. Weather it is with his past girlfriends, or his most recent relationship with Laura, Rob cannot seem to let go of the past and move forward in his life. Rob feels very insecure with himself and in his relationships with others so much so that he is scrutinizing himself over these past relationships and mistakes. We learn that Laura has affected him emotionally and physically due to the fact that Rob states everything that has gone wrong in his past relationships and how it relates to him in present day. In the beginning of the story, Rob discusses his top five most memorable breakups but Laura does not make the list. Rob has recently been seeing Laura, but as the novel opens, we learn that Laura has just left Rob for another man named Ian. Rob owns a failing record shop named Championship Vinyl and has a bad history and past with relationships and finding someone to settle down with. Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity is a novel that discusses the life and love struggle of Rob Fleming who is a thirty-five year old male living in London, England.
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