“Why is the measure of love loss?” (9)<\/p>\n
I chose this sentence because it repeats several times throughout the course of the novel. The narrator seems to be the type of person that falls in love very quickly and very deeply. However, for the narrator, each time their relationship ends with one of these people, they seem to be alright. In the case of the narrator’s relationship with Louise, this is not true. The narrator spends almost half the novel reflecting on how much they miss Louise, or how beautiful she is, or how much she loves her. It is evident that the narrator feels a great deal of loss from having to leave Louise, and perhaps did not realize just how much she loved her when she was actually with her. The form of this sentence is a question. This shows the narrator’s confusion, or lack of an answer. However, the form of the sentence also suggests that the narrator believes that the measure of love is loss, but is simply asking why that is.\u00a0The clich\u00e9 “You don’t know what you got until it’s gone” is very much like this sentence, however, as the narrator also reiterates several times “It’s the clich\u00e9s that cause all the trouble.” Perhaps the narrator is simply restating this clich\u00e9 in their own words so as not to cause any “trouble”.\u00a0Though this sentence is perhaps not the best for close reading on its own, when taken into context, the narrator is often talking about their relationship with Louise. In conclusion, this sentence reveals the narrator’s opinion of love, in that one does cannot\u00a0realize how much he\/she loves someone until they are gone. This applies to the text as a whole because it becomes\u00a0a theme. The narrator’s repetition of this sentence times reveals\u00a0how much they love and miss Louise, even before we know that the narrator has left her. This sentence is imperative to the\u00a0novel because it revolves around the love life of the narrator, and gives a deeper sense of how each relationship has impacted the narrator and shaped their opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Why is the measure of love loss?” (9) I chose this sentence because it repeats several times throughout the course of the novel. The narrator seems to be the type of person that falls in love very quickly and very deeply. However, for the narrator, each time their relationship ends with one of these people, … Continue reading Measure of Love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2970,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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\/2970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}