Love In Jenijoy La Belle's Loofah Is

As Spring rolls along, we enter into a period of loveliness: a warm season of blooming happiness. How lovely is it? So lovely that the love brings upon us a “transitory sickness” that comes with spring fever. It is the “darling month when everyone throws self-control away” and we become victims to the loveliness, and dive into the mirage of infatuation. Jenijoy La Belle’s article, “Loofah Is,” explores the fundamental meaning of love and the insanity that derives from it. “Loofah Is,” displays the artificial meaning of love through its known stereotypes, yet effectively captures the true, unaltered idea of infatuation. Jenijoy La Belle’s article critically analyzes the ways that people behave a certain way when they fall in love. Depending on the situation at hand, relationships can result in two ultimatums: a beautiful, yet cliché, happy ending, or end badly, with negative consequences. Belle then goes on to sum up her ideas of love and what it can do to women using examples of personal experiences that I closely relate to. From past experiences as well as experiences that …show more content…
It also expresses the idea of being in love and the extreme measures that ultimately come with it. All of these false impressions of love are widely spread because of how the media demonstrates “the ideal” path for love through the various forms of artwork and expression. Specifically, this idea plays a major role in movies, causing society to have naturally high expectations towards relationships. When love does not follow the course that one may have in mind, it causes people to approach the situation in an irrational way. At the end of the day love is love, it will always be something different to other people. Jenijoy La Belle just shows the commonality with everyone’s so called love: extremes will always exist, whether it is in the form of insanity, obsessiveness, or