Seventeen Syllables
I think this story follows the typical theme of the women having a problem that she needs a man to solve for her that alot of romance narritives have. Her mom saying that she almost commited suicide and how her husband came to the rescue, even if it was an arranged marriage, she thought that getting married would solve all of her problems but its obvious that down the road it wasnt a "happily ever after" ending. It goes against the norm of having everything work out in the end and i think it goes to show that we can't depend on someone else to solve our problems for us, we have to solve them on our own and make ourselfs happy before we can let anyone else into our lives.
Men in Your Life
I think that this goes along another different common theme of alot of romance narratives. A lot of times the conflict between the two people is class or background. This goes along with that theme because the women went on all these dates with men that had money and were well off but in the end she realizes that even though Eddie doesn't have money, what she thought she wanted, she loves him for his effort and she loves him for him. In the end it is kind of a "love conquers all" story. It doesnt show what is going to happen when the stress of being poor gets in the way of their relationship, because a lot of the time it does.
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I found it interesting that you said the woman needed to be rescued. Because while I agree that is definitely a romance narrative that we see in place all the time, there is also on regarding men. Men are usually seen as someone we need to fix. We look over their flaws and try to make them a better man. So it almost seems to go both ways.
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