Lorrie Moore "How"

Tema	Anglų kalba
Tipas	Rašinys
Aprašymas	Introduction to Literature. Rašytojos Lorrie Moore "How" interpretacija.
Patalpinta	2011-10-20
Parsisiuntė	2
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Išsamus aprašymas

"Lorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories," as Wikipedia says. Her story "How" reveals partnership among woman and man. Also, she mostly includes men’s and women’s actions which are against typical expectations. In her story we either notice woman’s unexpected masculine behavior or man’s not so usual deeds.
First of all, I will talk about woman’s behavior. An author is a woman, so she writes about familiar situation. We can recognize plenty of feminine features such as "feel discovered, comforted, needed, loved..." that shows woman’s desire belong to someone. However, this woman has many more masculine features than feminine. Even an epigraph says, "So all things limp together for the only possible." It is unexpected that woman is comprehended as individuality who seeks mostly for the benefit. People consider that women are houses’ keepers who bring love and warmth into the family. Thus, an epigraph is a main idea which reveals woman’s role in not so traditional relationships. For example, the lady answers "the rents are high" when the man offers her to move on in his apartment. Actually, using this phrase woman has an intention to manipulate the man. She only wants to not pay for a rent at all and this is not typical woman’s behavior. Moreover, this female has a lot of faces which she uses for her manipulation and perhaps she is confused by her hypocrisy. For example, she needs material goodness but she also expects to get some erotic love ("Make love to him like never before.") It looks like she wants to get everything that the man is able to provide. Also, this lady denies the principle that women want family and safe life. Besides, she does not want the never-ending love. "A week, a month, a year," the quote indicates her life’s cycle and let understand that existence is boring for her, composed only of predictable events and she does not enjoy safe family’s life. She does not want to experience her moments again that she is feeling, too. Unlike all feminine gender, she is not happy of her family and the idea that she has to maintain it, be a center of it.
Talking about man’s behavior; like his wife he also has masculine’s features such as responsibility for material family’s life but majority is composed of other gender’s elements. He lives with "craves family" that implies the fact that usually menfolk do not care about such things. They tend to think about their jobs and carriers more. The quote, "He is the best nunko in town," uncovers these attributes, too. It is surprising that male wants to get closer to children as much as possible. Furthermore, he asks four questions about supercilious, Coriolanus, Sardinia and croissant for his mate. This is inappropriate in standard families because man has to be the family’s head. Conversely to other men, when a lady decides to leave this man and announces this aloud, the husband claims "but I love you ". The situation is odd because we used to hear these words from woman’s lips, specifically when couples are in danger to divorce, but in this case, the words belongs to man. The man is desperate. Another abrupt incident occurs when woman informed her husband that she is going to leave him for a second time, "He will look panicked, but not surprised." The quote reveals that he is sensitive and vulnerable. After that he admits that he knows about his wife’s adultery; he does it in a very gentle way. Others would react aggressively but not him.

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• so all things limp together for the only possible
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