What is love? Is it being in a relationship for many years. Or that feeling when someone shows they care about another person. Could it be when a parent makes a favorite meal. In Japan they have three ways of saying “I love you”, “Daisuki” to friends they love, “Aishiteru” in serious relationships, and “Koishiteru” to their soulmate. Love can be confusing which may lead to why, “... we find ourselves relying on specific incidents because giving examples is easier than giving definitions”. (475) A textbook definition of love is a deep attraction to something, but can love be defined?
In Raymond Carver’s short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” the nature of love remains elusive regardless of the main characters trying to define …show more content…
As well as people will never be able to exactly pinpoint what love is because it has so many meanings and can make someone feel many different things. Certain type of relationships will never go away either, such as; abusive relationships, relationships between friends, or loving something so much you would die for it. In William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily” he asserts that love can have one make uncanny actions; the reader can identify this assertion because he or she notices how Emily Grierson carries herself through close relationships, death, and a unwanted desire of loneliness. Faulkner makes his main characters face these circumstances for his audience to see that death or a loss of someone that they love can make one change how they portray themselves in …show more content…
The tone does not change very often in the story, but does become very gruesome at the end when the author states that, “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair”. (504) The reader can assume from this quote that Emily had been sleeping next to her dead “husband”, Homer Barron, and that Emily has necrophilia. Although Emily can be seen as making actions that seem abnormal, to her everything she does is for a reason. It is also not uncommon for people to keep a loved one close to them even after they have passed away because they can not bare with the fact that their loved one is
In Raymond Carver’s short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” the nature of love remains elusive regardless of the main characters trying to define …show more content…
As well as people will never be able to exactly pinpoint what love is because it has so many meanings and can make someone feel many different things. Certain type of relationships will never go away either, such as; abusive relationships, relationships between friends, or loving something so much you would die for it. In William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily” he asserts that love can have one make uncanny actions; the reader can identify this assertion because he or she notices how Emily Grierson carries herself through close relationships, death, and a unwanted desire of loneliness. Faulkner makes his main characters face these circumstances for his audience to see that death or a loss of someone that they love can make one change how they portray themselves in …show more content…
The tone does not change very often in the story, but does become very gruesome at the end when the author states that, “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair”. (504) The reader can assume from this quote that Emily had been sleeping next to her dead “husband”, Homer Barron, and that Emily has necrophilia. Although Emily can be seen as making actions that seem abnormal, to her everything she does is for a reason. It is also not uncommon for people to keep a loved one close to them even after they have passed away because they can not bare with the fact that their loved one is