Henry’s actions towards Miss Barkley. He tells her at one point that he loved her, and then says to himself that he does not. He is saying what she wants to hear rather than what he feels. He plays with the idea of love, which exemplifies the changing viewpoint of many people. For most of human existence, love is not something that people “played with”. It is not until people realized that they could play with it and they could divorce and remarry without consequences that they began to care less about the future and care more about the present. They care about the “modern time” in this modern world that rose up around them. People fuel the change while going along with what they feel is the easiest way to live. The easiest way, however, is neither the traditional way nor the moral way. A new set of morals forms- morals revolving around a type of love that would be the only love that anyone could imagine to be
Henry’s actions towards Miss Barkley. He tells her at one point that he loved her, and then says to himself that he does not. He is saying what she wants to hear rather than what he feels. He plays with the idea of love, which exemplifies the changing viewpoint of many people. For most of human existence, love is not something that people “played with”. It is not until people realized that they could play with it and they could divorce and remarry without consequences that they began to care less about the future and care more about the present. They care about the “modern time” in this modern world that rose up around them. People fuel the change while going along with what they feel is the easiest way to live. The easiest way, however, is neither the traditional way nor the moral way. A new set of morals forms- morals revolving around a type of love that would be the only love that anyone could imagine to be