"Romeo, oh Romeo. Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" Clay's side of the tape begins with the now cliche line from Romeo and Juliet. The author meant to put William Shakespeare's work in his novel for another reason than just to be apart of the bandwagon of books which use this line. Hannah Baker used this line to foretell her thoughts of suicide, since the in-love teen aged Juliet killed herself too after her true love died. And Clay Jensen seemed the best person on her tapes to relate this tragic story to since they liked each other, Clay a little more than Hannah since she said "To be honest, there was never a point where I said to myself, Clay Jensen...he's the one." The point of referencing to Romeo and Juliet was not particularly pointing out that she could not live without Clay Jensen's love, since he was still alive and well at the time of her death, but that she couldn't live without love period. No one else, except maybe her parents, seemed to love her as a friend or more at the time.
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