The Elusive Nature Of Love In Raymond Carver's What We Talk About Love
The Elusive Nature of Love in Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Every love relationship is different somehow. Maybe we love different persons differently. Maybe we love differently. It is hardly difficult to characterize love, and also to put it in words. People talk about love all the time, complaining about it, complaining about their relationship.
Sometimes they don’t talk about it with their partners, and the lack of communication causes much more problems. In this essay I will explore the elusive nature of love through characters and I will try proving this with the help of Terri who had a very complicated love relationship that we can call an as an abusive type.
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in the case of Terri who had a boyfriend “who loved her so much he tried to kill her” (Carver 1). Once he beat her up and then when she went away, he poisoned than killed himself. When they broke up, he threatened Terri and his current boyfriend Mel although Terri claims that even if his actions he loved her in his own way. I absolutely agree with Terri’s point of view. Although this person probably had serious issues that don't exclude the fact that he loved her in his own way.
Mel’s current wife is Terri, and they also are in a love relationship although it is not an abusive one like Terri’s other one was.
Mel claims that her previous boyfriend did not love him. He says “I just wouldn’t call Ed’s behaviour love” (Carver 2). He has a point in that that normally people who love each other does not do that to their partner, but unfortunately, there are a lot of abusive relationships, and maybe his madness and behaviour do not exclude the fact that he can love. It also proves that it is very hard to define love and tell what love is and what is not.
Laura and Nick are a fresh couple expressing their love towards each other, very intimate with their words and also with their expressions. They also have an opinion about what love is but they also can’t put it in words. Instead, they express their love through touching each other.
With the help of alcohol and alcohol urging conversation within friends, in the story of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love we are seeing different kinds of people talking about love, and what love is but also we can see the elusive nature of love, that love is undefinable. With the help of Terri and his abusive relationship type, we can also see that love is very complex and even that type we can include in love and helps us arrive at that conclusion that how elusive the nature of love
is.
Every love relationship is different somehow. Maybe we love different persons differently. Maybe we love differently. It is hardly difficult to characterize love, and also to put it in words. People talk about love all the time, complaining about it, complaining about their relationship.
Sometimes they don’t talk about it with their partners, and the lack of communication causes much more problems. In this essay I will explore the elusive nature of love through characters and I will try proving this with the help of Terri who had a very complicated love relationship that we can call an as an abusive type.
The elusive nature of love is highly interesting …show more content…
in the case of Terri who had a boyfriend “who loved her so much he tried to kill her” (Carver 1). Once he beat her up and then when she went away, he poisoned than killed himself. When they broke up, he threatened Terri and his current boyfriend Mel although Terri claims that even if his actions he loved her in his own way. I absolutely agree with Terri’s point of view. Although this person probably had serious issues that don't exclude the fact that he loved her in his own way.
Mel’s current wife is Terri, and they also are in a love relationship although it is not an abusive one like Terri’s other one was.
Mel claims that her previous boyfriend did not love him. He says “I just wouldn’t call Ed’s behaviour love” (Carver 2). He has a point in that that normally people who love each other does not do that to their partner, but unfortunately, there are a lot of abusive relationships, and maybe his madness and behaviour do not exclude the fact that he can love. It also proves that it is very hard to define love and tell what love is and what is not.
Laura and Nick are a fresh couple expressing their love towards each other, very intimate with their words and also with their expressions. They also have an opinion about what love is but they also can’t put it in words. Instead, they express their love through touching each other.
With the help of alcohol and alcohol urging conversation within friends, in the story of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love we are seeing different kinds of people talking about love, and what love is but also we can see the elusive nature of love, that love is undefinable. With the help of Terri and his abusive relationship type, we can also see that love is very complex and even that type we can include in love and helps us arrive at that conclusion that how elusive the nature of love
is.