Ind Aff Theme Analysis

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El Paso Community College

English 1302 Research and critical writing

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SHORT STORY PROJECT: IND AFF

THEME ANALYSIS

Extreme relationships often tend to be abusive in some way from one of the partners towards the other. Very marked age differences some times show a sense of immaturity or a parenting feeling, it is hard to assimilate to someone who in deed is very different to the other. Now when there is a certain dependence that is more than of love, like economic, intellectual, physical, social, progressive it can become very abusive on the depending person. It’s a case were almost anything has to be tolerated, because in deed, if one wants to keep enjoying from those benefits, he or she must lower their head and keep eating what ever is thrown at them.

What starts out on a rainy day, seems to open way to the blindness of what’s to come. “I never got to see much of it cause of the rain”(151), focusing on the fact that she to couldn’t see much of her relationship blinded by the pressure that rained down on her also. There is a constant mentioning of Princip’s story (148), by both lovers; since her theses is based on that historic moment that would be: “the shot that lit the spark , that fired the timber, that triggered the…” (148). She seems to identify herself in a way with young princip, it’s how she pictures her self, and how she must look for that opportunity to just take control of the situation and just go for it.

Our narrator has a direct conflict with Peter’s wife, more of a personal competition to were she considered to have the strong end… “ So far as I could see, it was no contest at all between his wife and myself”. In a sort of way she seems to feel guilty for the way she was slowly being left behind. The Archdukes wife can be represented as Mrs. Piper and how she mustn’t...

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...s entertaining.(internet II)

Michael Malone; New York Times, April 26, 1992, p. 11.

I must agree with Mr. Malone since as much as you’d expect her to destroy peter in her story she gives him a sense of indifference, but one would come to expect that from him since through out the story she seems to plot out his character. Now the way that the story seems to not unravel till the end is interesting, it kind of takes you along a calm river ride with a smooth NIAGRA FALL ending.

WORK SITED

Weldon, Fay. “IND AFF” or “Falling out of love in Sarajevo” Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 5th edition. Boston. Bedford / St. Martin’s. 2000. Pages 146-151.

INTERNET I

RED MOOD http://redmood.com/weldon/biography.html

INTERNET II

Malone, Michael. “The Life Force Has a Headache.” The New York Times p.11 April 26, 1992 Criticism about: Fay Weldon. Texshare. E.P.C.C Libraries El Paso 28 February, 2001. Gale Literary Database <http://www.galenet.com/servlet/GLD/hits?c=2&secondary=false&

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