West Side Story: True Love

Love and Lust are two different things with regards to relationships. Love is when two people like something about each other, but having a desire for someone is called Lust. In the book "West Side Story" by Stephen Sondheim, two people from different gangs think they love each other, but from my point of view, they are just attracted to each other. They don’t show true love because they keep on thinking about their looks and they showed desire towards each other. First of all, true love is when someone shouldn't judge someone on their looks or think about their looks. Some characters in the book like Tony and Maria weren't truly in love with each other but were obsessed with each other. For instance, "The world is wild and bright, Going mad, shooting sparks into space." pg. 162, this evidence shows that he was going crazy with her and couldn't control himself and couldn't stop thinking about how she looks. If Tony literally liked her than he would have just kept on thinking about her, however in pg. 161 he says "And there's nothing for me, but Maria, Every sight that I see is Maria." In other words, Tony is trying to say that he wants to admire Maria every
Tony and Maria are just crazy about each other but they don't legitimately love each other. They both just want to see each other every day. For example, in the text, Maria says "Only you, you're the only thing I'll see forever. In my eyes, in my words and in everything I do, Nothing else but you ever!" pg. 161. To put it differently, Maria is trying to say that Tony is the only thing that is visible to her and she will see him forever, everything that she wants to say is about Tony. "All the world is only you and me! (And now the building, the world fades away, leaving them suspended in space.)" This evidence shows that Tony and Maria think they are the only ones in this