What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Analysis

• This short story gives the perspectives of love from four different people. They all have a different way of looking at love. Instead of hearing words like happy, wonderful that are normally linked to love, you hear words like pain, jealousy, and misunderstanding. They all have different points of view because they all have different experiences with love. This could be looked at from a feminism critisim because Mel kind of over powers Terri's opinion. He tells her to shut up, and he basically says her way of seeing love is wrong.

Abstract

• Four friends are all sitting around having a drink. Mel and Terri are married, and Laura and Nick are married. Terri starts off by saying what she had with Ed was true love because he would die than not be with her. Ed was her boyfriend, but when they broke up, he took it hard. He threathens her and Mel because he is so in love with her. He ends up commiting suicide because Mel is with Terri. Mel is slowly getting very drunk as these stories are going on. He brings up a story about an old couple that were hit in a car crash. They were literally on their death beds, but the husband was upset because he couldn't see his wife. Laura claims her and Nick are in love. Even though she had loved other people before meeting him. They all had loved someone before marrying eachother. The story ends with the couples finishing off the gin, and there was no more discussing on what everyone thinks of love.