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