It's about a man who is disabled and walks into the lives of an older woman and her deaf 30-year-old daughter. The old man helps out the two woman, and he fixes their car that hasn't run in years. Then the man and daughter get married. After he marries her, he takes her to a restaurant and then leaves her there. While he's driving away he picks up a hitchhiker and then the hitchiker gets upset with the man and leaves. The man then continues to drive towards his destination.
So many different discussions were brought up about this short story, and what stuck out to me was a theme I got from it.
There's a part in the story in which the man talks about this doctor who cuts up a human heart, and no matter how he annalyzed it, he never truely knew the person.
In other words, You can analyze the heart of a person all you want, but you'll never truely know the person who carried the heart within themself.
Another thing I got from it was that people aren't always what they seem. The old man seemed kind at first, but there was something off about him. I came to see a side of him that was of mean spiritedness and that side of him was shown when he left the deaf daughter at the resteraunt, probably never to see her own mother again.
2 comments:
Hey lady! Awesome blog. I do agree with you on your interpretation of the story. I think one of the main themes of the story has to do with that famous and awkward heart scene. I love how you said, "You can analyze the heart of a person all you want, but you'll never truly know the person who carried the heart within themself". You can't tell anything about a person by analyzing his heart.
I really like your imput about the heart. I was very confused at that part in the story, and not being able to analyze and understand another person's heart makes sense. The heart is very complex and only the one person it belongs to truly knows what it feels...if even they know.
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