The first sentence that Zadie Smith states in her short story “The Girl with Bangs,” simply says “I fell in love with a girl once. (Smith, 188)”. That sentence should signify that someone fell in love with a girl with bangs, but that is an understatement. Should he have fallen in love with this girl? This story tells you how he fell in love with the girl and her characteristics and her quirks, some time ago. This girl changed his view on girls and people in general. Having the story placed in England gives the characters, or at least Charlotte, an authentic hippie feel. The main character in the story is a college student who never thought that he would find anybody who he could keep long enough; only because he thought that people are a bore,
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Maybe. Charlotte is a mystery, hiding behind the bangs that fall into her eyes. His initial thought of her is that she was good news, like sweet cherries, something real sweet. He has never dated anyone, should she be the first? Once he decides he wants to pursue and get to know Charlotte, he quickly finds that she is seeing a Belgian who lived across the hall in the college dormitories. The first time he sets his eyes on Charlotte, she was spending at lot of time in the communal bathroom, because she would stay the night with the Belgian guy Maurice. Every time she was in the bathroom, she as always “looking a mess”, she was wearing a t-shirt tucked in her “nickers”, a cigarette in between her lips and her bangs in her eyes. Are these good qualities one might find attractive in a girl? Maybe so, but with these, would you think she would be good enough for him? Having the temptation of seeing Charlotte a few times a week really made him want to know her even more. He never thought he could have her because, the guys she typically when for were guys like Maurice, foreign with an …show more content…
Not only, teaching males how to treat a female with respect, but teaching females how to respect males who they could possibly be with for the rest of their lives is a huge deal (3). If respect was taught in lower education, the world just might go ‘round a little more smoothly. “You get in return, what you give”, respect is earned, but is also given. That being said, when it comes to a loving relationship, there is a few thing that should happen. First, respect. Second, friendship. Third, love. Those are just a couple of things that not always happen in a relationship, but they are things that should happen. As far as respect in a relationship that ties in with the friendship that a couple will have, there isn’t a single person in this world that is friends with someone that they don’t have respect. After the friendship is established, love should come naturally. Everyone will have their spats and arguments, that is also a natural state of mind. Sometimes it is hard to stay calm with someone with their attitudes (2) but in the short story he manages to keep Charlotte pretty calm when she might have a random attitude problem and keep her down to earth. Even though Maurice came back into the lives of these college students and between their relationship, Charlotte
Maybe. Charlotte is a mystery, hiding behind the bangs that fall into her eyes. His initial thought of her is that she was good news, like sweet cherries, something real sweet. He has never dated anyone, should she be the first? Once he decides he wants to pursue and get to know Charlotte, he quickly finds that she is seeing a Belgian who lived across the hall in the college dormitories. The first time he sets his eyes on Charlotte, she was spending at lot of time in the communal bathroom, because she would stay the night with the Belgian guy Maurice. Every time she was in the bathroom, she as always “looking a mess”, she was wearing a t-shirt tucked in her “nickers”, a cigarette in between her lips and her bangs in her eyes. Are these good qualities one might find attractive in a girl? Maybe so, but with these, would you think she would be good enough for him? Having the temptation of seeing Charlotte a few times a week really made him want to know her even more. He never thought he could have her because, the guys she typically when for were guys like Maurice, foreign with an …show more content…
Not only, teaching males how to treat a female with respect, but teaching females how to respect males who they could possibly be with for the rest of their lives is a huge deal (3). If respect was taught in lower education, the world just might go ‘round a little more smoothly. “You get in return, what you give”, respect is earned, but is also given. That being said, when it comes to a loving relationship, there is a few thing that should happen. First, respect. Second, friendship. Third, love. Those are just a couple of things that not always happen in a relationship, but they are things that should happen. As far as respect in a relationship that ties in with the friendship that a couple will have, there isn’t a single person in this world that is friends with someone that they don’t have respect. After the friendship is established, love should come naturally. Everyone will have their spats and arguments, that is also a natural state of mind. Sometimes it is hard to stay calm with someone with their attitudes (2) but in the short story he manages to keep Charlotte pretty calm when she might have a random attitude problem and keep her down to earth. Even though Maurice came back into the lives of these college students and between their relationship, Charlotte