Tschemerinsky, Kathrine: Writer Sally Rooney on transforming life into novels, 2021. június 26. (Hozzáférés: 2023. február 24.) „Sally Rooney explains that she sees the world through what she calls a Marxist framework and that both of her novels explore social structures: "When there are two people alone in a bedroom no one is thinking about class and gender, but the structures are there," she says. Rooney’s books also discuss social class through her characters: "The people that I write about tend to be precariously situated in the economy. They are usually college educated like I am, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are financially stable and secure."”
Sheahan, Fionnán: It's Marianne's fault we can't get a government to satisfy Normal People. Irish Independent, 2020. május 23. (Hozzáférés: 2020. május 23.) „The author of Normal People is a self-professed Marxist... her politics seeps through her writing. It's no accident the central protagonists of the book that has captured the nation's imagination are the rich girl living in the mansion and the poor boy whose mother works as her family's cleaner. The TV version glosses over the discussions around 'The Communist Manifesto' and the feminist bible 'The Golden Notebook'.”
Brockes, Emma. „Sally Rooney interview: 'It's my job to write about whatever comes into my head'”, Irish Examiner, 2021. szeptember 3. (Hozzáférés: 2023. február 24.) „As Rooney’s fame grew, inevitably commentators online targeted her own background for being insufficiently pure. At the end of Normal People, Connell, a working-class boy, goes off to New York to take up a place on a creative writing course at NYU, an ending mocked by critics as being bourgeois”
Collins, Lauren: Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head. The New Yorker, 2019. december 31. (Hozzáférés: 2023. február 24.) „[Rooney's parents] took Sally and her two siblings to church, but they were more passionate about passing on socialist values. Marx’s dictum "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" was the household catechism.”
