Love Affair

never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” Love is an unusual accident that can defy all other forces and overwhelm the human heart to overlook the norms. This kind of love is evident between Gurov and Anna from the short story “Lady with a Lapdog” written by Anton Chekhov. Gurov and Anna exemplify individuals in society who have found true love too late in their lives. But with the power of love, they are able to…

order to keep what truly matters, as people’s sacrifices reveal their true beliefs. In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton demonstrates that people make such sacrifices for what they really value, when Newland Archer ends his affair with the Countess Olenska, whom he loves, to live socially accepted with his wife, May Welland. Archer gives up the relationship that he longs for, displaying that his real principles are behaving loyally to his wife, finding acceptance in 1870’s New York high…

W.D. Snodgrass wrote many love poems. His breaking of three marriages did not make for a very good love story though. This is why there seems to be a bit of personal experience in “Leaving the Motel” (Rosenheim). This poem is the actions of two people at a motel after an afternoon of sexual encounters. These two people are trying to keep their affair a secret and the use of tone, symbolism, and rhyme help express the way they go about it. The love between the two is portrayed as businesslike…

Nora Ephron’s novel, “Heartburn” is a memoir like story about one woman’s’ experience in processing lost love, life, and food. Nora uses flashbacks throughout her novel to describe her lost loves and to give understanding of her feelings of and experience with betrayal due to her husband Mark’s affair, Charlie, her ex-husband’s affair with her best friend and her good friend Arthur Seigal’s affairs. She says often that she wants her readers to understand her relationships and perspectives, why…

attempt to break past the traditional gender- biased mindset. June is a dramatic and intense love affair in Nin's life. Anaïs heard tales of June from Henry before her arrival in Paris and as soon as June arrives Anaïs is completely infatuated with her. June becomes the temptress as Nin buys her expensive gifts and longs for physical intimacy. Anaïs' relationship with June is a paradox of a traditional love affair. Nin, the more feminine of the two, plays the masculine role and June assumes the…

The relationship between Daisy and Gatsby is true love but, it is short lived due to the fact that the timing of their relationship could not work out and by the time things could have worked out she could not leave her marriage for her true love. The messy marriage between Daisy and Tom is not true love. It is a love affair, and pure greed. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald many relationships are destroyed due to love affairs, lack of trust, and lies. Curiosity arouse…

God of Small Things” tells of Ammu and Velutha’s love making; the reader desperately wants the pair to be together and the chapter is intense due to the reader’s knowledge of what is to come. Ammu is a beautiful and sardonic woman who has been victimized first by her father and then her husband. While raising her children, she has become tense and repressed and this leads to her becoming reckless, a trait which spurred her into the dangerous affair. Ammu’s latent “Unsafe Edge,” full of desire…

someone that you’ve hardly had enough time to make a first impression on. Arranged marriages were a key aspect in “Marriage is a Private Affair.” People often disagree with arranged marriages because they don’t always love their spouse. “Marriage is a Private Affair” displays this when Nnaeme tells his father, “I don’t love her” (Achebe 190). Marriage is a private affair also demonstrates that arranges marriages can cause a great controversy between a father and his son. Arranged Marriages…

Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and the film The Bridges of Madison County, both tell a story of a …. love affair in the eyes of the women involved. Adultery, usually being interpreted as a scandalous and sinful act, is presented in a different way throughout these stories. The perspective in which the audience/readers are put into, is one that demonstrates a whole different side of a forbidden affair. Although The Bridges of Madison County and “The Storm” convey similar plots, with the use of the…

disliking his wife and women in general, he is quite a strange character because though he is a misogynist he carries out numerous affairs claiming that women like him and that he likes them. On multiple occasions he accouters Anna Sergeyevna whom he refers to as the lady with the dog, one day he decides to strike up a conversation ultimately initiating their love affair where Gurov gradually transforms into a new man. Through the thoughts, interactions and action of the character, Anton is able…