The Unhoneymooners

Though Olive protests she and Ami are very different people, how do the events in the novel show that they are more alike than Olive thinks?

What is the role of absurd and comedic situations in the text, both for moving the plot forward and bringing Olive and Ethan together?

How does learning that Ethan has never disliked Olive and always been drawn to her change your reading of their early scenes together?