A Strange Love Affair
August 26, 2013
A Strange Love Affair
Jan Myrdal wrote a narrative called “ A Strange Love Affair.” In this narrative is about a man that comes across a big problem. In 1947 he was going steady with a girl name B. and “was very much in love with.” He states that B. would not let him take the next step as to sleep with him. In December of that year he left to Belgrade. He returned to
Sweden but in those two years got married “another girl.” In February 1949 he went to
Stockholm by train from Herrljunga. Met B. Having met again they both realized they were very much in love with each other. He then followed her to her room and now she wanted to give herself to him, as she expressed it. The purpose of the narrative was to ask the question how far is to far too find love?
The culture at this time was very conservative. It was not heard of to sleep with a girl until you where married. Women had to act with high standards. Women back then were taught morals and how they should act around men. Jan was trying to teach his readers to be less immoral and have morals. There was the Vietnam war and the beginning of the civil rights. People were challenged of the traditional values and lost their morals. People where not looking at married the same as they did in 1947. We have to remember that the war was going on as well. Wive and husbands where feeling lonely and took advantage of the situation.
I feel as the reader he was successful in having me think critically. I was putting my self in his place with out even knowing. Now I know that might of been this goal all along. He put no detail at all which made the read put them self in the narrative as if they could see and under stand his reasoning. When he says got married to“another girl” there is no name.It does not say any thing about her, is she beautiful, smart, funny.
No its just “another girl.” Jan has no detail in his whole paper and make the reader step back and think? Was it guilt or was
A Strange Love Affair
Jan Myrdal wrote a narrative called “ A Strange Love Affair.” In this narrative is about a man that comes across a big problem. In 1947 he was going steady with a girl name B. and “was very much in love with.” He states that B. would not let him take the next step as to sleep with him. In December of that year he left to Belgrade. He returned to
Sweden but in those two years got married “another girl.” In February 1949 he went to
Stockholm by train from Herrljunga. Met B. Having met again they both realized they were very much in love with each other. He then followed her to her room and now she wanted to give herself to him, as she expressed it. The purpose of the narrative was to ask the question how far is to far too find love?
The culture at this time was very conservative. It was not heard of to sleep with a girl until you where married. Women had to act with high standards. Women back then were taught morals and how they should act around men. Jan was trying to teach his readers to be less immoral and have morals. There was the Vietnam war and the beginning of the civil rights. People were challenged of the traditional values and lost their morals. People where not looking at married the same as they did in 1947. We have to remember that the war was going on as well. Wive and husbands where feeling lonely and took advantage of the situation.
I feel as the reader he was successful in having me think critically. I was putting my self in his place with out even knowing. Now I know that might of been this goal all along. He put no detail at all which made the read put them self in the narrative as if they could see and under stand his reasoning. When he says got married to“another girl” there is no name.It does not say any thing about her, is she beautiful, smart, funny.
No its just “another girl.” Jan has no detail in his whole paper and make the reader step back and think? Was it guilt or was