Miss Young has become accustomed to patients professing their love in the form of proposals and she routinely responds with professional indifference. Her prior mechanical responses to these marriage proposals falters when 21 year old Geoffrey asks for the nurses hand in marriage. Man May Love (Sharp,1916) tells in short the story of Nurse Young and patient Geoffrey as he attempts to woo the nurse to give him her hand in marriage. Used to this declarations of love by men she has restored to health, Miss Young does not seem to give the young man 's words any thought. But as the story progresses the reader witnesses the cracks form in Miss Young 's demeanor, her indifference …show more content…
Geoffrey means well and intends to wait the allowed time suggested by Miss Young. Though she suggested the wait in order to test the patients intentions, she is sad to be alone and hopes the he will come back. His love does last for the initial two weeks of the month but fades as he sees the girl he was in love with prior. Just as Miss Young feared time, distance, and absence sway his heart from her proving that he was only swayed towards her due to proximity and circumstance. Not with standing that a happy ending between the two was wished for, the evidence of actions within the text validate the claim that authentic love never existed between …show more content…
In that story the female protagonist nurses a soldier back to health leading to him professing love for her. Unlike Geoffrey the soldier does come back for the nurse after a period of time. Nicholas Sparks (1996) describes the romance that ensues after the reunion between the young soldier and nurse which seems destined but is ultimately severed when the nurse realizes it was only infatuation compared to what she felt for a past lover she was away from. Like Geoffrey, once she was reunited with her past beau the feelings she thought had migrated to the soldier had actually not moved at