Susan Minot's Lust

Literary Analysis of Susan Minot’s “Lust” In Susan Minot’s short story “Lust” the reader is taken through the journey of one girl’s various relationships, some better than others, watching the love fade away. The narrator talks about her first boyfriends, the first one she saw nude, the fast illegal car driving one, etc. She talks about college and the various experiences she had with guys there. She is starting to feel “watered down.” There is no more emotion in her relationships. She ends with a sad truthful ending about lust, how the love fades away. Lust is told in the first person. Only one character’s thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are expressed in the work, that character is the narrator. The narrator talks about how she feels