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Pressure from Everywhere There are so many that love the person they are with, while other they do not know if they love that person they are with. Not only that, but who needs to love more than the other in a relationship. In the story “ Good People” by author David Foster Wallace he talks about a young highly devoted Christian couple that get news that one of them does not want to hear. This young couple is so in love until something unexpected happens. When Lane Dean Jr finds out his girlfriend is pregnant, he starts to question himself and if he truly love her, and what they should do with the baby. He also comes to question their beliefs as a Christian and what might happen. They do not know if this is what they want, they are both scared being so young. Lane is torn with his thoughts and the pressure he has. The pressure of what his standards are as a man and a Christian. So with all of …show more content…
There was a point where he just began to think about it “ He was starting to believe that he might not be serious in his faith” (Wallace). He began to second guess everything he believed in. He he couldn 't think about abortion because he knew how devoted Sheri was to the christian religion. Lane was having a lot of mental struggles that were getting to him. This also caused him to struggle with the way he was acting “ He was desperate to be good people, to still be able to feel he was good. (Wallace). Lane began to think that he wasn 't a good person to his faith because he wanted to abort the baby and trying to convince his girlfriend to do it to. Not only that he didn 't even love the person he was with or even want to be with her when he found she was going to have a baby. Lane has a lot things that are making him think more about what he really should do and what kind of impact they are going to have on what is going

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