We So Seldom Look On Love

If the story “We So Seldom Look on Love” was about a different topic the story had the potential to be quite beautiful. The way the narrator talks about death as being “energy given off when a thing turns into its opposite . . . There are always sparks at extreme points. But life turning into death is the most extreme of extreme points. So just after you die, the sparks are really stupendous. Really magical and explosive" (145) is a beautiful description. The way she talks about death has the potential to heal the wounds of death. At a different point in the narrative, she talks about desire and how "all desire is desire for transformation . . . happens because life turns into death" (145). The narrator does not talk about death as a permanent …show more content…
Excluding the main topic of the narrative, the story had the potential to be a story full of insights on what happens to a person when he or she passes away. However excluding the main focus of the narrator is not feasible from the story, therefore it remains a griping and gruesome tale of a necrophile. Furthermore the fact that entirely different types of people, from diverse walks of life can commit acts that various individuals deem wrong, however too other individuals resembling the narrator are conventional. And even though “We So Seldom Look on Love” encourages a re-examination of the way I look at love and societal norms my overall opinions did not change in relation to the practice of necrophile. I enjoyed reading about the narrator’s philosophy of death; being neither positive nor negative. Instead the narrator views death as a transformative state as energy is transferred. The story "We So Seldom Look on Love" by Barbara Gowdy sheds light on the desires of one individual provoking a re-examination on customary norms within society, and what constitutes