Summary Of The Love Of My Life By T. Coraghessan Boyle

more attention to him and Beina. Beina’s marriage was not what Cheng had in mind for her. He did not expect her to enjoy it or become attached. Cheng was upset because Beina was not listening to him. He tried to use his power to make her divorce him, but her attention and focus moved to another man in her life. Cheng thought he wanted his niece to get married, but he realizes that he misses the control that he had over her. He realizes that “when Beina still refuses to divorce her husband and insists on his goodness and the inviolability of their marriage vows, her uncle is flabbergasted by her unselfish behavior” (“Bridegroom Analysis”). At this point, Cheng realized he was losing control and had no say in what Beina would be doing anymore.
Coraghessan Boyle wrote the short story, “The Love of My Life” at the start of his college education. Boyle is a creative short story writer. He went to the University of Southern California since 1978 and “his work included 19 books of fiction, that have been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages (“Science of Sex”). “The Love of My Life” is a short story about a boy named Jeremy and his girlfriend China. Jeremy and China are highschool sweethearts. Ever since they started dating they have been attached at the hip. They went hiking together, they went on vacations together, and they spent every moment together. Jake is really dominant in his and China’s relationship. He only wants to do what he wants to do. The dominancy issue did not bother China; therefore she was happy with the way things were
Coraghessan Boyle demonstrates male dominancy in his short story “The Love of My Life.” “He drove her car, slept on the couch in the family room at her parents’ house, played tennis and watched football with her father on the big, thirty-six-inch TV in the kitchen” (345). This quote emphasizes that he, Jeremy, did everything. Boyle stresses this by only saying things that Jeremy did with China’s family. Nowhere in the short story does Boyle mention things that China does with Jeremy’s family or by herself. This implies that China did things with Jeremy and only Jeremy. “‘You’ve got to get rid of it,’ he told her in the motel room that had become a prison” (349). This quote shows that Jeremy is really demanding. By saying the words “you’ve got to” shows that Jeremy does not care about China’s input. He does not want the baby to be born so that is the way he thinks it should be. Jeremy wants the baby aborted, China does not. Boyle uses the phrase “in the motel room that had become a prison” to show that China is not happy at this point of conversation. That phrase shows that China feels trapped and feels that there is no way to escape the situation. However, China actually got her way for once. After Jeremy took a step back, he realized that getting an abortion would not be the best idea. He did not want to risk the chance of anyone finding out about their current situation. Jeremy and China then decided that they would just carry the baby to full term. Jeremy and China