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What's Love Got To Do With It; Everything! - Online Essays

What's Love Got To Do With It; Everything!



Dr. Andrea Musher
Tuesdays and Thursday 12:30 - 1:45 PM
Literary essay

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver

An excerpt from Readers Digest August, 1997, submitted to Laughter, the Best
Medicine, by Adam Christing.

A lot of people wonder how you know if you really in love, says comedian Ronnie
Shakes. Just ask yourself one question: Would I mind being financially ruined by
this person?

If you really look at this statement, it is invariably the truth. When it comes
to love, money makes no matter, be it past, present or future. Love is love, and
nothing can stand in its way.


In the following pages I will be discussing Raymond Carvers ...

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they in love? It may be surprising, but the answers to
these questions can be surpassingly different. Only when they are the same will
the love be true.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, is set in a house somewhere
in Albuquerque NM, some time in the afternoon or early evening, and going into
night. As previously stated, the story was written in 1981, and it appears to
set in the same time. Two couples are sitting around the kitchen table, drinking
gin, and talking, talking about love and the many forms it takes. Teresa (Terri)
gives a detailed description of a brutal love she had with her ex-boyfriend, and
how he beat her. Mel, Terris husband, gives us his feeling for his ex-wife, and
how he loves his kids, that she has custody of. Jealousy, is the love he has for
her, she has his children, and he wishes her dead, so he could have custody.
Finally, the love they all agree as the universally truest love, the spiritual
love, is shown by an elderly couple involved ...

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them, a dangerous, and most likely a repeating, situation is developed.
Women who are involved in abusive relationships, typically are always involved
in them, be it emotional, physical or mental abuse, the cycle continues. Terri,
is now involved in another abusive relationship, not physical, bur mental with
Mel.

Jealousy, a feeling so evil two of the Ten Commandments expressly forbid
it. As we look at Mel, a cardiologist, a person whos job it is to save lives,
desires to have his ex-wife dead. Towards the end of the story Mel gives his
feeling on his ex-wife, and his kids.

I think I want to call my kids, Mel said ... Terri said, What if Majorie
answers the phone? ...

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