The Other Paris By Gallant

Gallant's "The Other Paris" is a marvelous representation of two "love birds" finalizing the decision of marriage "over a tuna-fish salad". A social commentary and an amount of satire over exaggerated to prove a point about society. Disney movie story lines are not a form of reality they are written scripts of fiction.
The author immediately introduces "expectation vs. reality" through Carol. Who is an extremely old woman who will never get married at the age of twenty-two because who would want that? She expected a "seine,moonlight,barrows of violets" with a gleaming Eiffel Tower in the background. And that is when life falcon punched her in the face with a lousy unexpected proposal over the rotting smell of tuna. To make it worst it's with a guy named Howard who she's only done small talk with over the course of three weeks. Just the fact that they "both would have liked champagne" for the special occasion; however, they were to "diffident to suggest it". That self explains how comfortable they are together. The exaggeration expressed through Gallant's words really show how idiotic it all sounds honestly. All to slap some sense in society to not make dumbfounded decisions.
In addition, although they aren't in love Howard didn't seem to consider the real aspect of what was going on in their "relationship", for he's an economist who had his salary in balance to fulfill a partner's need economically rather than emotionally like the true meaning love should be. On Carol's behalf she was just waiting for the love to be to be added to the equation after the most romantic day of her life will be done. Gallant's use of comparing love to a geranium flawlessly paints the reader a picture of how beautiful love should be visualized rather than a foolish feeling of a dead