Terms Of Endearment

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also tries to move to Nebraska in an attempt to stay with his adultery partner, Janice.
Aurora links herself to this quote because the beginning and middle parts of the film she seemed and felt alone in her life, and love life. She seemed to be alone and always had something missing in her life. Garret feels like he needs to be with numerous girls, mostly younger, because otherwise he feels alone. He gets basically tamed by Aurora and realizes he isn’t alone with one girl.
Aurora’s actions were caused by the illness of her daughter and the fact the Garret stopped caring about everything they ever had. Garret showed that she was not alone in a time of need. He came all the way to Nebraska to see her and her daughter to show that they were not alone.
The other main point of Meditation 17 is “Another man may be sick and this affliction may be in hi bowels as gold in a mine”. Many characters also fit the characteristics of this quote. The most obvious connection you can ...

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Flap is the most obvious, by deceiving his wife and neglecting his kids at some points. He shows that he puts no effort and seems that he does not want to be with Emma like Satan not wanting the same things as God. The same goes for Emma by neglecting her kids, and cheating. Sam resembles Virgil because of how he guided Emma through the “hell” parts of her life, he made her get her mind off Flap.
Flap and Emma are both also like Satan by being trapped in their relationship with each other. They both wanted out but settled with their differences between them. This resembles Satan because he settled to stay in Hell. He tried to prove to himself that Hell is not so bad because he had ...

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