Analysis Of All American By Diane Williams

In the short story All American the women talks about how she wants something that she can not have which is a married man. This women describes this guy’s wife as the enemy, simply because she knew that this man was sleeping with his wife also known as “the enemy.” This women should not be angry with this women simply because she is not doing anything wrong she is legally married to this man. If she is angry with anyone it should be the man, he is the one that is seducing her and he knows that he is married while he is out fornicating. This women then begins to say how she is forced to love the ones that she is supposed to love. Then she goes on to say that she has to force herself on the ones she should not love. It seems like that she does …show more content…
In the story the lady calls the wife the “enemy.” She is the enemy because she is coming in between thesband and her. Little does she know that she is in fact the enemy. In the bible located in the book of John 10:10 it says “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” She is that thief that is coming to steal, kill, and destroy. She is stealing a husband from his family, she is stealing this women’s husband and she is stealing this woman’s family, but most of all she is stealing the love that this man is supposed to have for his …show more content…
She forces people to love her instead of sitting back and letting true love find her. In the bible it says “He who finds a wife, finds a good thing.” Which means that love is going to find you, it does not say he who goes searching for a wife finds a good thing. She is going out looking for something that is supposed to come and find her. If she would sit back and wait patiently her Romeo will come looking for her and she will not have to force people to love her. Most of all if she waits for what is in store for her she will not destroy what God has already put together for someone