Tuesday, May 17, 2011

lust and summer

"Lust" by Susan Minot and "Summer" by Dan Updike, are two stories about male and female relations  "Lust" is about the emptiness of sexual relations, the insignificance of dating a lot of men.  It is told form the viewpoint of a anonymous female narrator who has no feeling for any of the men she is with, yet has intimate relations with all of them, out of some mysterious social pressure the author feels.  She wasn't obsessed on a silly crush, living in an perfect environment, she was in the real world. There were social gatherings, and problems, girls needed to take birth control and one young man even tragically passed away. "Summer" is a innocent love story about Henry, who spends his Summer in love with Sandra, a young woman. He never has any sexual relations with Sandra but is still head over heels for her.  I preferred “Summer” because it had an innocent feel to it.  It seems like a summer love story out of a perfect world.  I wish it worked out in the end.  

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