Abstract Matt Haig in The Midnight Library depicts Nora’s dissatisfaction with her life choices. And this crisis in Nora’s life was so devastating that she wants to commit suicide. This sense of malaise experienced by the majority of human beings due to the sense of disorientation attracts the attention of the audience. Suspended between life and death, Nora found her way to a library where she found different versions of her life as if she was living vicariously. She could read about her different roles in life as if she was living in a parallel world and she saw her life with so many different choices. After all, she found all those choices did not bestow her the contentment she was pursuing, instead, her lost contentment was retrieved. This epiphanic event reminds her she can be happy with her choices in life and it acts as a tromp l’oeil for Nora to distract her attention from the slough of meaninglessness and hopelessness. This paper highlights that the sense of finitude in life can make it more meaningful and Nora’s Being toward death gives her a phoenix-like rebirth to affirmatively embrace her destiny as it is.
