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Elad Nehorai's 'The Girls In Their Summer Dresses'

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Marriage – a fragile human relationship. Marriage starts with wedlock and eventually the two people band together regardless it’s always cut short by a divorce which hinders the relationship. The anatomy of marriage is filled with disparity and tentative where agreements are the only temporary culminating threat of disunity.
In a manner corresponding to Irwin Shaw’s main protagonist Michael in the story called “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses”, it can be said that his outlook on marriage is trivial. Michael has a compelling weakness of watching girls even do when he is married; he still does it compulsively. In paragraph 19, the narrator gives an example and explains how he is looking at girls “he took his eyes off the hatless girl with the dark hair, cut dancer-style like a helmet, who was walking past …show more content…

The author/narrator starts on by how he got married. He clearly describes how he got married in Paragraph 6 by saying “Our dating period lasted a very short time. After two months, we were engaged. Three months after that, we were married”. As the reader reads on, the author describes the problems of marriage such financial, emotional and differential. Elad Nehorai first thought that love was an emotion but as his marriage progressed he learned that love is giving as putting someone else needs above your own (Nehorai 30). The author says that love isn’t something that is forced out but earned by giving. Furthermore, he finished his story with “Living Disney movies in our minds, and tragedies in our lives”. Not only he means that life isn’t a movie but he also states that love in movies and in real life are totally different. For him, love in the movies is more emotion based because people are trying to live a Disney movie and don’t see the reality. He described this as Loveless

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