Literary Analysis In The Woods By Tim O Brien
Was it Love, or Obsession?
I wanted to begin with an interesting question what is love? Love is an intense feeling with a deep affecting to someone you really care about. However, why do we tend to be falling in love with different kinds of people and not just one. From one moment to the other we stop having feelings towards the people we thought were going to be our everything. This semester I had the opportunity to read a book about love, happiness, murder and also a possible psycho is was writing by Tim O'Brien called “In the Lake of the Woods”. The story begins with the protagonists John and Kathy Wade; both of them are talking about happiness without knowing what happiness really means. “They wanted happiness without knowing what it was, or where to look, which made them want it more” (O’Brien pg. 2) For both of them one of their biggest desires is to express their love for one another. Kathy Wade decides to cheat on John Wade, because it’s her way of showing John that she knows that he is watching her.
In different ways we all know that John Wade had a tense relationship with his father, his father was an alcoholic who verbally abused John. Later on John losses his father to suicide. This becomes a big influence on the way …show more content…
To have another traumatizing event like the one with the suicide of his father. John and Kathy Wade are both guilty about spying and let yourself be spied on. John liked spying on his wife, even though he wanted to stop there was still a desire on doing it. The same thing goes for Kathy, she liked it when her husband spied on her. I do not know why, but I do find that creepy. To conclude, Kathy Wade did disappear from John’s life, we do not know what happened to her whether she’s alive or dead. The mystery is yet to be
I wanted to begin with an interesting question what is love? Love is an intense feeling with a deep affecting to someone you really care about. However, why do we tend to be falling in love with different kinds of people and not just one. From one moment to the other we stop having feelings towards the people we thought were going to be our everything. This semester I had the opportunity to read a book about love, happiness, murder and also a possible psycho is was writing by Tim O'Brien called “In the Lake of the Woods”. The story begins with the protagonists John and Kathy Wade; both of them are talking about happiness without knowing what happiness really means. “They wanted happiness without knowing what it was, or where to look, which made them want it more” (O’Brien pg. 2) For both of them one of their biggest desires is to express their love for one another. Kathy Wade decides to cheat on John Wade, because it’s her way of showing John that she knows that he is watching her.
In different ways we all know that John Wade had a tense relationship with his father, his father was an alcoholic who verbally abused John. Later on John losses his father to suicide. This becomes a big influence on the way …show more content…
To have another traumatizing event like the one with the suicide of his father. John and Kathy Wade are both guilty about spying and let yourself be spied on. John liked spying on his wife, even though he wanted to stop there was still a desire on doing it. The same thing goes for Kathy, she liked it when her husband spied on her. I do not know why, but I do find that creepy. To conclude, Kathy Wade did disappear from John’s life, we do not know what happened to her whether she’s alive or dead. The mystery is yet to be