\u201cI considered her. I didn\u2019t love her and I didn\u2019t want to love her. I didn\u2019t desire her and I could not imagine desiring her.\u201d (26)<\/p>\n
The narrators need to constantly remind that \u00a0\u201c I didn\u2019t <\/b>love her\u201d, \u201cI didn\u2019t <\/b>want to love her\u201d, and, \u201cI didn\u2019t <\/b>desire her\u201d throughout the quote was something that I found very captivating. The repetitions in this passage made me question the narrator\u2019s honesty. Repetition is interesting in way that it has the ability to form arrangements, which catches our attention creating comfort within our minds. If you repeat something several times a part of you will start to believe it, whether it is true or not. I questioned whether Z was trying to convince the audience or him\/herself that he had no intentions of loving Jacqueline. I think that Z wanted to make sure that his\/her point was made by letting us know that not only did he not love and desire her but he had no intention of loving nor desiring her. It is almost like he was refusing himself love.<\/p>\n
I think this passage is about the way Z views relationships and how one should feel in relationship. The fact that Z can even say \u201cI considered her\u201d says a lot about how much he\/she values relationships and the importance of a relationship and love. In this passage Z comes off as very selfish. Even though he\/she does not love Jacqueline and has no intention on loving he\/she still does not mind having her around. Z is selfish for not being honest with her. Instead of thinking about her feeling and needs as a person who also would like to be loved all he can offer her is being \u201cconsidered\u201d.\u00a0 I think this passage is forcing us to look at love and in a more forced way.\u00a0 Love in this passage is being looked at as unwanted where as I am so used to seeing love being an intangible thing that people yearn for. In this sense love is seen as being something to avoid. I also think that the author forces us to look at love as one sided. In this sense it is very clear that the narrator wants nothing to with love but the woman is the equation can possibly be yearning for love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI considered her. I didn\u2019t love her and I didn\u2019t want to love her. I didn\u2019t desire her and I could not imagine desiring her.\u201d (26) The narrators need to constantly remind that \u00a0\u201c I didn\u2019t love her\u201d, \u201cI didn\u2019t want to love her\u201d, and, \u201cI didn\u2019t desire her\u201d throughout the quote was something that … Continue reading Not Everyone is Interested in Love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}