Written on the Body (115-190)

Summary:
As the book comes to a rocky conclusion many questions have been answered. The narrator is a "he" who had recently got out of relationship that lasted years. It was tough letting go of his precious girlfriend, and that is why he is so harsh when it comes to love. What the married women is trying to do is bring him back into the game of love and show him that there are still so many people that he could met. The narrator ends his final conversation as he walks us through his relationship with Louise, the women he could have spent the rest of his life with.

He says that love is broken down into "Special Senses", but in reality they are just the basic five senses. First is hear. The narrators remembers everyday that he spend with Louise and all the yelling that they did. All he wants to do his hear her voice again. The narrators describes smell as being the way to connect. There was no reason to touch each other with just being in the same room together and breathing the same air they connected and that is what the narrator mostly desired.Louise's taste was like an olive tree whose roots grew by the sea.

The narrator greatly missed Louise and would have done anything to get her back, but deep down in his heart he knew that, that was far from possible. The novella ends with the married women giving him strong advice about what he should do. She says that now it may seem like all is hard and he will never be able to get over her, but this is his happy ending, he just has to find the light in it.

Quote:

"I don't know if this is a happy ending,but here we are let loose in open fields"(Winterson 119).

Reaction:

This novella ended the exact way that I thought it to be. I knew that the narrator was suffering from a heartache and that is why he was so tough at letting someone back into his heart. Although the married women is not the happiest women of them all, she was strong enough to help the narrator see the light at the end of the tunnel. The narrator was able to let go of the pain that he was suffering and finally move forward with his life. Winterson shows greatly how relationships leave a deep scare on us, but mostly in our hearts forever.

Written on the Body (40-115)

Summary:

This novella has been a roller coaster with the relationship between the narrator and the con fussed wife. A huge topic that they both speak about it marriage, the pros and cons of the whole marital process. The narrator spoke about a play that she watched and how it was all just a waste of time. The narrator says that what really matters in a marriage is there to be a strong bond between the two, and that no paper could ever prove that love. While the wife agrees on certain parts, she also includes some of her own life examples.She has been married for over ten years and she feels as if she is alone in her relationship. She sometimes wonders that she is not doing enough to maintain her relationship strong. The controversy between the two fascinates me because they both have very different views on love, while at the same time very alike.

Quote:

"Cheating is easy. Theres no swank to infidelity" (Winterson 77).

Reaction:

Between the narrator and the wife there are many controversy's and it is not as if they both stay quiet about it, they yell about it. But one thing that they both agreed on is that cheating is not that bad. On one side for the narrator they say that sex is the most important thing, so cheating is just a regular. While for the wife, she is not happy at all in her relationship so she feels as if cheating is her last resort to happiness. I found it amazing how on the most unagreeable topics, these two completely different people agree on.

Written on the Body (1-40)

Summary:

In this novella, both the narrator who has not been identified and a confussed married women discuss the theory of love. The married women beileves that in order to maintain a strong marriage there has to be lots of friendship and getting along between the couple, while the fierce and optimistical narrator says that to keep a marriage strong there has to be lots of sex. There are many disagreements between the two in the true meaning of love, but one thing that they both do agree on is the power of love and what it can do to people. The narrator talks about his/her experiences in love and relationships and introduces three words "I love you". In his/her relationship he/she felt as though she was obligated to say "I love you" in return and that made him/her and insincere person. While the married women has been in a relationship with her husband for years but it is simple out of commitment. The narrator takes us back to a church and describes the altar and what the soon to be married couple say while up there. He/She says that she could never lie up at the altar like other people do, and solomley promise to take care of another peorson for the rest of her/his life. The narrator beileves that some things are better left unsettled and there is no need for commitment when you can just have fun.

Quote:

"I love you and my love for you makes another life a lie" (Winterson 19).
Reaction:

This novella has strong dual narration and the narrator and a married women have completly different point of views. One is more sincere and honest about her feelings, because she has been married for so long. While the other beileves that marriage and commitments are all for the birds, and who needs it. The narrator seems to be the dominant one in the conversation, but what the married women in saying is slowly processing in the narrators mind. They both agree on certain thi ngs while in many ways they disagree so much. <3