{"id":1579,"date":"2021-02-14T23:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T04:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2021-02-14T23:52:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T04:52:45","slug":"temporary-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2021\/02\/14\/temporary-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Loss is something that no one wants to experience, but somehow everyone inevitably encounters it in one shape or form. It wouldn\u2019t be as troublesome if there were an end-all solution, but the problem is that there is no clear way to deal with loss. In Jeanette Winterson\u2019s novel, \u201cWritten on the Body,\u201d the theme and experience of loss is consistently brought up. Even in different contexts, there is an underlying message that Winterson brings to light, which might not be all that obvious. To elaborate, loss may not be as permanent and devastating as the narrator makes it out to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The narrator has many points of self reflection and realization about loss, yet one in particular stands out. The focus point reads, \u201cTo lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don\u2019t get over it because \u2018it\u2019 is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes.\u201d (155). It is easy to assume that this passage is about the long-lasting effect of loss. However, based off of the previous stories about the narrator\u2019s past lovers, this described loss seems to be just another one in the books. This assumption is possible because when looking at how the narrator grieved the ones she had loved and lost, the story remained the same; they fell in love, the relationship failed, they lost each other, and they grieved. Each time, the narrator got over the additive pain and eventually moved on, only to find a seemingly greater love and ultimately a greater loss; possibly adding to the so-called \u201cgap” left behind from past lovers. And each time a loss is explained, there seems to be so many possibilities to avoid it from happening, yet the narrator\u2019s decisions inevitably result in greater loss. This recurrence questions if the pain of loss is actually unavoidable or if it was the narrator\u2019s subconscious decision to avoid potential pain?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Even though the narrator\u2019s losses could\u2019ve been avoided, they still happened and the narrator still buried the emotions and moved on every time, proving the point that \u201cthe pain stops.\u201d Perhaps each time the pain stops, it allows there to be an opening for someone new, someone like Louise. And even though the narrator demonstrated a strong bond with Louise, it ended with loss, and was the biggest loss of them all. However, bringing back the proposed question, if the narrator managed to overcome the previous losses, why is Louise the one that is seemingly the change of pattern? Considering the significant contradiction between the pain of loss with left behind feelings of love, versus moving on, the narrator\u2019s seemingly unbearable feelings resulting from losing Louise are only temporary and the pain will eventually stop; allowing the cycle of love, loss, and recovery to restart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Loss is something that no one wants to experience, but somehow everyone inevitably encounters it in one shape or form. It wouldn\u2019t be as troublesome if there were an end-all solution, but the problem is that there is no clear way to deal with loss. In Jeanette Winterson\u2019s novel, \u201cWritten on the Body,\u201d … Continue reading Temporary Loss<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","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\/4664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}