Whats Love Got To Do With It; Everything! :: essays research papers

What We Talk About When We Talk About adoreAn excerpt from Readers Digest August, 1997, submitted to Laughter, the BestMedicine, by Adam Christing.A lot of batch wonder how you know if you really in love, says comedian RonnieShakes. Just ask yourself one question Would I perspicacity being financially ruined bythis person?If you really look at this statement, it is invariably the truth. When it comesto love, money makes no matter, be it past, present or future. Love is love, andnothing preempt stand in its way.In the following pages I will be discussing Raymond Carvers short story,What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. It is a story that explores alltypes of love, jealous, brutal, physical and spiritual. Written in 1981, it isvery contemporary in its style and its meaning can be applied easily to passing(a)life.Only love that is true in your heart is love, the rest are otheremotions sublimated into love. With this in mind, we should look at peoplearound us, people who are i n love. Ask to yourself, Why are they in love? Then,ask yourself, How are they in love? It may be surprising, but the answers tothese questions can be surpassingly different. Only when they are the same willthe love be true.What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, is set in a house somewherein Albuquerque NM, some time in the afternoon or early evening, and going intonight. As previously stated, the story was written in 1981, and it appears toset in the same time. Two couples are sitting around the kitchen table, boozinggin, and talking, talking about love and the many forms it takes. Teresa (Terri)gives a detailed definition of a brutal love she had with her ex-boyfriend, andhow he beat her. Mel, Terris husband, gives us his feeling for his ex-wife, andhow he loves his kids, that she has custody of. Jealousy, is the love he has forher, she has his children, and he wishes her dead, so he could hit custody.Finally, the love they all agree as the universally truest love, the spir ituallove, is shown by an elderly couple involved in a bad accident. Both of them disdain to die, until they can be assured the other will be all right.In the very beginning of the story, the two couples are sitting arounddrinking and talking. As their conversation goes on it develops into one of love.This passage marks the first of several types of love, and gives us an intuitive