This story conveys a message about relationships and
the urge to love. The man tries to force a relationship that is not there. Because
he did not find lasting, true love with a woman, he begins to force love into
general things around him, fore say a tree, rock, and cloud. The old man says, “and
now I am a master, Son. I can love anything. No longer do I have to think about
it even” (32). The man says he loves
anything that is around him, whether or not if he knows what it is. He has no
connection to what he is saying he loves. Just saying those words has no
meaning if no action is applied to go with it. The paper boy that happened to
walk into the diner where the man was drinking was just the next object to
love. It is not real love nor any emotional connection at all in my opinion. I believe
it is fake and forced upon.
The man’s science of
love should not coincide with whom or what to love first or last. The science
of love suggests that one should learn to love everything around him or her
before loving a significant other. The old man clearly states the problem with
men and love. He mentions, “without science, with nothing to go by, they undertake
the most dangerous and sacred experience in God’s earth. They fall in love with
a woman” (31). I believe he is saying
that marriages and relationships do not work out because a person jumps too
soon in a decision that is doomed to fail. That person must slow down and take
the last step of loving a woman after they have gone through the scientific
process first.However, I am not convinced that the man is truly happy. Otherwise, he would not be drinking at a diner by himself. I believe the man is trying to convince himself that he is happy, so he has a reason to defend why the two women that were in his life both left him for another man. I do not think the old man will finish his scientific process and find another woman to love. I think he will be incapable of finding a woman because he will be too focused on pretending to love all the little things around him and will miss out on an opportunity that could come his way to find real, conventional love.
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