Love
What is love? How a word that has only four letters can be so hard to define? How this tiny word can mean something different to each person? This happens because love is an emotion, something that is felt, and something that is empirical, that do not have a reasonable explanation. Therefore, in the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” a group of four friends, Mel McGuiness, Teresa, Nick, and Laura, were talking about love, and each one of them have a different opinion about the meaning of this simple four letters word. However, as the story goes by the characters start to drink, and the more they drink the more they understand less about the subject love. The author Raymond Carter uses the alcohol as tool to revel …show more content…
In the beginning, Mel says that “love was nothing less than spiritual love” (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 1) because he spent some years in a seminar before going to medical school, and he learned that this was the definition of love. As the story goes by, Mel starts to drink, and he starts to get really confused. He says: "It seems to me we're just beginners at love. We say we love each other and we do, I don't doubt it. I love Terri and Terri loves me, and you guys love each other too. You know the kind of love I’m talking about now. Physical love, that impulse that drives you to someone special, as well as love of the other person's being, his or her essence, as it were.” (“what we talk about when we talk about love” 5). At this point is clear that he changed his mind from love being something spiritual, from love being something physical, and also is clear that he knows that he loves his wife, but he just can’t define in general what is love. Right then, Mel changes again the definition of love by saying that love can be define as Carnal either, and that this type of love is when you care day-by-day about the other
What is love? How a word that has only four letters can be so hard to define? How this tiny word can mean something different to each person? This happens because love is an emotion, something that is felt, and something that is empirical, that do not have a reasonable explanation. Therefore, in the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” a group of four friends, Mel McGuiness, Teresa, Nick, and Laura, were talking about love, and each one of them have a different opinion about the meaning of this simple four letters word. However, as the story goes by the characters start to drink, and the more they drink the more they understand less about the subject love. The author Raymond Carter uses the alcohol as tool to revel …show more content…
In the beginning, Mel says that “love was nothing less than spiritual love” (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 1) because he spent some years in a seminar before going to medical school, and he learned that this was the definition of love. As the story goes by, Mel starts to drink, and he starts to get really confused. He says: "It seems to me we're just beginners at love. We say we love each other and we do, I don't doubt it. I love Terri and Terri loves me, and you guys love each other too. You know the kind of love I’m talking about now. Physical love, that impulse that drives you to someone special, as well as love of the other person's being, his or her essence, as it were.” (“what we talk about when we talk about love” 5). At this point is clear that he changed his mind from love being something spiritual, from love being something physical, and also is clear that he knows that he loves his wife, but he just can’t define in general what is love. Right then, Mel changes again the definition of love by saying that love can be define as Carnal either, and that this type of love is when you care day-by-day about the other