Everything that Ted does, Lily is somehow made a part of. Ted also imbues Lily with her own voice and speech, though she does not actually speak in words but instead through her actions and manners. Ted does everything from watching movies to playing Monopoly with Lily, though Lily herself does not actually play Monopoly. She has been his constant companion for twelve and a half years and has been with him through all the trials of his life in that time, including the bad relationship he had with Jeffrey for six years. Ted imagines the octopus is alive, and is a creature that must be defeated in order to save Lily’s life. When the novel begins, Ted suddenly notices one night that Lily has a tumor on her head–something he will come to call the “octopus” because he looks at the tumor as though it was something squeezing the life out of Lily like an octopus.
Lily and the Octopus is a novel by Steven Rowley in which forty-two-year-old Ted Flask must face the heartbreaking decision to put his beloved dog, Lily, to sleep.
Note: Citations in this study guide refer to the June 2016 Simon and Schuster first hardcover edition of Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley.
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