It is true that you
can’t fix yesterday but you can fix what you do today. For example when Park
says” yesterday happens” to Eleanor she realizes what she did and starts fixing
herself to be a better person.
Eleanor and Park were
misfits for each other from the start and they knew that it would be hard to
overcome. They had to work extra hard like convincing each other that they
liked each other(and eventually love each other), had to please Park’s parents
which took a while but after his mom and Eleanor bonded over make-up, Park’s
dad soon followed suit. Also, Eleanor was always picked on and for her to have
someone care about her was different. It took a while for her to understand
that someone could care about her. The night that the quote takes place is one
night when she comes over, at the beginning of their relationship she didn’t come
over much so the first time was very nerve racking for her. She, of course, was
just trying to protect herself against the feeling of being cast away. So she
reacted in a way that would get her out of there. She didn’t know what the
consequences of her acting that way would be but she found out the next day.
That is when Park tells her that he was a little upset Eleanor realizes that
she didn’t need to act that way. She realized that he would never intentionally
hurt her.
This quote also might
mean that things happen that are similar to what might be known as a
“yesterday”. Most people think of what they did yesterday as something wrong,
so in this quote Park might also be trying to make Eleanor feel loved and now
that she only hurt him a little and that she can fix it and he won’t be mad at
her. He might have thought that she acted the way that she did because she
didn’t feel welcome. So when he says “yesterday happens” he is trying to make
her feel better and understand that he has a lot of “yesterday's” too.
In conclusion whichever
way you take it, from Park’s side or Eleanor’s, they both were just trying to
make each other feel better about their relationship.
