A Romantic Story : The Story Of A Romance Story

I turn around to face the mirror. I see Harmony in the reflection of myself.

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and the impossible love of Ethan Frome and Mattie Silver. These two stories have more in common than you think. They both end sourly, as each resists a “happy ever after” ending. Both romances also seem to convey that love isn’t always what it seems. And both their characters set unrealistic expectations for the others. As these stories unfold side by side, they seemed unlikely qualifiers of similarities, at first. But as one reads more and more, each tale exists to try to give a message to all who read. In reality, life and love don’t often end happily ever after.

An ongoing search for knowledge, a continual loss of innocence, and the realization of the forever changing definition of a hero continue to plague our society. The search for knowledge never ended it just evolved. The industrial revolution set the ground work for the advancements made in the contemporary period. After the romantic period and industrial revolution, the world engaged in the space race, nuclear arms race, automobile advancements, search for cures for diseases, and much more. The technology has continued to advance and will continue to advance throughout history. As stated previously, knowledge leads to power and power leads to responsibility. Unfortunately, many neglect this responsibility as Frankenstein did. The advancements

The short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, invalidates the struggles and the lives of women, especially those that have experienced abuse. Carver oppresses women through lack of empathy for a victim and reinforcement of certain stereotypes.

– The author tried to present two separate love stories of different generation, Ira and Ruth: Sophia and Luke. The story begins with Ira Levinson, a ninety-one years old person struggling for life, with the image of his dead wife Ruth in his mind, trying to survive from the deadly car accident. On the other hand, a young couple Sophia and Luke who had just started their married life as a happy couple just few months after they met. On their way back to home, they saw the car and Ira in injured state. They took him to the hospital where Sophia used to read the letters of his Ruth for Ira, as he was not able to read it. Luke was indulged in deadly games to pay the debts of his father. This met changed their life and soon their life changed.

Love is a feeling that comes to fruition between two people and the story behind the growth of love between two people is often associated with the culture of their society or societies. In their short story, “Family Stories,” authors Steven J. Zeitlin, Amy J. Kotkin, and Holly Cutting Baker discuss the impact and importance of oral stories passed down through generations. They state, “[Oral stories] are relevant to … history not only because they convey some factual information, but because they often capture the ethos of an era” (10). This “ethos of an era” refers to the culture surrounding a story because culture describes the actions of a collective society and as such strongly influences stories. Culture, especially, influences love stories

“Good morning Ms. Robertson,” Daniel said to the woman sitting behind the desk doing paperwork. The woman looked up, straightened her glasses and her face lit up.

By the same token, the romance fiction genre pivots on the presentation of “women’s triumphs over systemic inequality” (Jagodzinski 9)¬–that is, Caucasian women’s triumphs, as the romance fiction genre “seldom extends that kind of concern to other marginalized groups” (Jagodzinski 9). The romance fiction genre’s endeavor to “debunk ideological justifications for women's subordination offers little insight into the domination” (Crenshaw 155) of women of color, and the messages that correlate with the genre’s narratives are “overgeneralized at best” (Crenshaw 155) as a consequence of the narratives embedment in solitarily Caucasian experience. Disagreeing with this model of romance fiction, Jagodzinski proposes that romance fiction authors who “look beyond just patriarchal oppression to consider other types of systemic oppression, like racial oppression” (Jagodzinski 9) create a new subcategory of romance fiction: intersectional romance fiction, as various forms of identity-directed oppression “are considered in conjunction with one another” (Jagodzinski 9-10). The conflicts within intersectional romance fiction often “demonstrate how the maintenance of power is invested in the oppression” (Jagodzinski 150) of those who fail to meet the dominant standards of what the average member of society should appear as. When an author deliberately distinguishes “each character’s various avenues to power based on [their] identity” (Jagodzinski 40), the audience is naturally made

Super Sad True Love Story takes a look into an exaggerated future of excessive hedonism and impulsiveness with a satirical touch that shows an ever so possible future. The issues made in the story can be easily grasped and understand through a Marxist reading of the main points of the story is centered on its economic turmoil and class division that is found throughout the book. To understand the story is to look through it as a Marxist critic as none as pertinent to understanding the information. And its themes about terrorism in the modern world and the economy along with its rampant consumerism, class division and cultural difference and Asceticism and Hedonism in the story than through the eyes of a Marxist critic.

“It’s addressed to you,” Seth said as he passed letter to Ignis. Ignis furrowed his eyebrows as he looked at the letter.

In Raymond Carver’s short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” Mel, Terri, Nick, and Laura we drinking gin and have a unique conversation about what the concept of love meant for them. Laura is sitting there with her husband, Nick, just listening to Mel and Terri go on and on with his stories. The story that Terri tells about her love interpretation isn’t exactly a happy one, causing the tone to turn to a more pessimistic view on love. Terri starts out by telling a story of her Ex, who abused her and Mel for a while before killing himself. It was obvious that this relationship was far from healthy, but Terri insisted that her Ex loved her. Laura was asked to state her opinion but she simply said, “‘I don’t know anything about

“That was very sweet, Adrien. Now, let’s see who you can sit with?” Madame Bustier said highly touched.

The book I read is “Love Story”, by Erich Segal, who is an accredited screenwriter, author of scholarly books, and was hailed “the most important new writer of the 1970’s” for this tragic tale. The book is published by Harper & Row and is a short 130 pages. Portions of this book first appeared in “The Ladies Home Journal” and was officially published as a novel in 1970. This book was recommended to me by my father and the New York Times #1 best sellers list.

I met her two years ago and we did not have much to say at that time. Little did I know that she would later steal my heart and become an intimate part of my life. As the saying goes "there is someone for anyone at any time in this life" and I was about to find out that this saying was so true. I have had a wall built around me and my defense was as a stronghold to protect myself from all the relationships that have come and gone over the years. I thought that I was meant to be alone in this old life and happiness was forever gone from me. This wonderful woman I am speaking of is Mary Doe, and the joy she has given me has revived my hope and faith that I may have finally found love and peace within. She has made me feel like I am a child

Love is an abundant emotion that has different degrees. There is familial love, friendly love, unconditional love, and of course romantic love. Romantic love will be the superstar of this article. Romantic love may be around every corner whether between an old couple or a young teenage romance. However, love is not the easiest thing to attain. It is such a simple concept, though a difficult thing to actually have a person’s hands on.