Love And Unrequited Love In The Jilting Children

Hopefully everyone has felt to some degree the emotion we describe as love. There are many different types of love in our human society. The first one we are most likely to experience is the love that occurs between children and parents. It is usually an unconditional love and has a purpose in human biology. There is also the unrequited love often felt for the first time by school children who learn that all love is not returned equally.
Romantic love can be the most irrational causing sane people to commit insane acts. All of these different types have been written about countless times in literature since people began writing their thoughts down. Just like in all those other bodies of work the love experienced by the characters in "The Jilting …show more content…
The love that is felt for their children causes the parents to stay with their children even if it becomes detrimental to their safety or causes them to make sacrifices that they would otherwise not make. This support may also become reversed as the parent ages and may become dependent on the child for care as they themselves may become too weak to care for themselves.
In the story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" Mel is a cardiologist who has children with his divorced wife. He is not very fond of his ex‐wife due to the fact he must pay alimony to her while she lives with her new boyfriend and their children. While they are having drinks at a table outside he expresses he has two different hopes for her future. One is that she will get married so he no longer has to pay alimony that her and her current lover use to support their lifestyle. The other is that because she is highly allergic to honeybees she will be stung by one and succumb to her ailment. The fascinating thing is that even though he has this much disdain for the mother of his children he still has that unconditional parental love for the children themselves. We know this because when he