The Cheater's Guide To Love Analysis

Some say love makes the world go around. The most evident theme in a majority of stories is love in all its beauty, along with its shortcomings. “The Cheater’s Guide To Love” features a main character that struggles with finding love again after ruining his first. Similar, in “Love is Blind and Deaf,” the couple, Adam and Eve, ruin the peaceful love between themselves and constantly chases after what once was. In contrast, the short story “Leap” discovers the beautiful truth of love after witnessing a countless amount of suicides. In these three pieces the characters and narrator come to terms with the beautiful and depressing truths of finding and losing eros and philos love. Succinctly, “The Cheater’s Guide To Love” is a self-narrated story about a man named Yunior struggling to cope with love and loss for five years. Specifically, Yunior finds the literally depressing effects of losing love. His problems arise when he is caught cheating on his fiancé with an innumerable amount of
He writes about the first and most simple couple, Adam and Eve. They each have their own deficiencies, but due to the other being deaf or blind they are unaware of those flaws. This creates an easy and happy relationship between the two. As the story goes on, the more apples they eat the more aware they become of each other’s flaws, creating a distance between the two characters. They constantly fight and are unsettled in their relationship. Although impossible, they try to recreate their flaws trying to close “the canyon between them” (Foer 2). The couple realizes all they needed was peace in their relationship. Even God applauds them for being so close to the peace there was before their ignorance diminished. The two lovers had to ruin their peace in their agape love to fully accept the revelation of how great their love had