Responce to "Why the Marriage Plot Never Gets Older "

Settla(Shen Jiale)
 

Dr.Marquardt
 

ENG1430
 

April 14th
 

Word Count:# 239

        Response to “Why the Marriage Plot Never Gets Older”

       When the author encounters the marriage-plot argument, he gets a sinking feeling. He clarifies his opinion about why the marriage plot never gets older. First, he thinks the liberation of women and liberalization of divorce law didn’t deprive the novel of the form whose protagonists contended with societal repression. The marriage is dependent mainly on psychological and internal drama rather than external factors. In addition, the marriage plot always has a happy ending. The novels in the contemporary life stand on both sides. Some have a happy ending, while others have a bad ending. What’s more, he thinks that the novels of the twentieth and twenty-first century seem to lack certain qualities that the predecessors possessed.

      From my point, I acknowledge that the marriage plot never gets older. Actually, the protagonists in the past century suffer from poverty and hardship. Thus, these protagonists have distinctive features compared to the couples in the contemporary century. They have hard work spirit which isn’t embodied on the contemporary couples. Love lasts forever, no matter how long time has passed. With the marriage time becoming longer, their emotion between each other is more and more profound. Not like the initial love, long-time touch with each other make their love become another kind of love. This kind of love is similar to the love between relatives. The marriage plot never gets older.