The order of things
Analyse and interpret of Lucy Spring’s short story ”The order of things”
Sometimes when true love appears, it can be difficult to think clear and act rationally. It is the feelings taking over and loosing the control. Falling in love can make everything else seem unimportant. Quite a lot of people decide to marry before they find true love, only because of expectations from society and from themselves. Should people be allowed to follow their heart when true love appears, even if they are already in a relationship? In this short story “The order of things” by Judy Troy, we get introduced to this dilemma.
The main focus in the story is the relationship between the main characters, Carl and Lily. The story takes place in Worland, where Carl is a reverend at the church. He is married and he has a daughter. The narrator explains that he thinks he married to soon. Carl has been attracted to Lily since he and his family moved to Worland, “in the year since Carl had come to Worland with his wife and daughter, he had not been able to stop thinking of Lily” (p. 1, l. 5-6). Lily is also married, but she feels passionately about Carl and they commence a secret relationship. They meet up in different remote hotels where they make love. The winter is coming and it is getting difficult for them to leave town and still keep their relationship secret, so they agree to stop their affair.
The fallowing weeks they talk everyday and they see each other on Sunday mornings to Carl’s services at the church. Carl has difficulties concentrate, when Lily is around, “Carl had trying not to look at Lily during the services. In an effort not to, he would find himself staring at someone else’s face without realizing it, or paying so little attention to what he was saying that he repeated himself or lost his space” (p. 3 l. 6-8). Carl cannot just put away his feelings for Lily.
One afternoon Lily shows up at the church and they make love. Afterwards they meet in the church as
Sometimes when true love appears, it can be difficult to think clear and act rationally. It is the feelings taking over and loosing the control. Falling in love can make everything else seem unimportant. Quite a lot of people decide to marry before they find true love, only because of expectations from society and from themselves. Should people be allowed to follow their heart when true love appears, even if they are already in a relationship? In this short story “The order of things” by Judy Troy, we get introduced to this dilemma.
The main focus in the story is the relationship between the main characters, Carl and Lily. The story takes place in Worland, where Carl is a reverend at the church. He is married and he has a daughter. The narrator explains that he thinks he married to soon. Carl has been attracted to Lily since he and his family moved to Worland, “in the year since Carl had come to Worland with his wife and daughter, he had not been able to stop thinking of Lily” (p. 1, l. 5-6). Lily is also married, but she feels passionately about Carl and they commence a secret relationship. They meet up in different remote hotels where they make love. The winter is coming and it is getting difficult for them to leave town and still keep their relationship secret, so they agree to stop their affair.
The fallowing weeks they talk everyday and they see each other on Sunday mornings to Carl’s services at the church. Carl has difficulties concentrate, when Lily is around, “Carl had trying not to look at Lily during the services. In an effort not to, he would find himself staring at someone else’s face without realizing it, or paying so little attention to what he was saying that he repeated himself or lost his space” (p. 3 l. 6-8). Carl cannot just put away his feelings for Lily.
One afternoon Lily shows up at the church and they make love. Afterwards they meet in the church as