Frankie and Johnny is the love story of how girl loves boy, but then boy goes and breaks her heart. And even when she kills him she runs and weeps and holds him. That is one type of love story. In the story What We Talk about When We Talk about Love has many types of love stories discussed and shown between a group of friends.
First we have Terri and her crazy ex who shot himself. She swears that it was love. So she is the example of the beaten woman who will not admit that there was no love in the relationship. She is one of those women who feels like she needed to stay because there was love and even when she did break it off she wouldn't admit it. The crazy ex is the example of a man who wants control and in order to have it he convinces a woman he loves them and then treats them poorly. He becomes so possesive of her that he is willing to try and kill himself to get her back.
Next we have Terri and Mel. They are the example of the couple where the man knows everything and she makes little cracks, but allows him to have his way most of the time. Mel is the drunk guy who knows everything and then gets sentimental and mushy with the one he loves. You can tell he loves Terri, but he always makes stupid remarks.
Nick and Laura are the perfect couple. They both come from broken relationships and found each other and now they are very in love with each other. Even the words that Nick describes Laura with you can tell how he loves her a lot.
Then there is the old couple. They have a horrible accident and even when completely covered head to toe in bandages, the husband wants to see his wife so desperately that he is depressed. All he cares about is her and in order to know she is ok he must see her.
There is also Mel and his daughter. They show the love between a father who wants better for his daughter and he describes even an idea to kill her, but you know its just that he wants her to have a better life. Not divorced, broke, and living with a boyfriend with his grandchildren.
I find that when reading literature you find all these different types of love stories between different people and the tension created between them is what catches the attention of whoever is reading it
That was a unique thing to do, mentioning the old couple in your assessment of the pairs. It made for a good observation, realizing that not two, but three different scenarios of love are described in the story. =~)
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