love post 1

Love, in Morrison's story has quite different trappings than the traditional emotions associated with it. Compassion, honesty and forgiveness are the warm positive aspects of love that should be prevailant, but instead jeolousy and bitterness are the emotions manifested in this story. Morrison shows what is numerous times throughout the novel, the marriage between two people of such disproportionate age, bitter feuding. But at the end of Morrison's story some of the softer parts of love shine through, which gives every reader hope, which is of course the hallmark of a love story.