"love"

What is love? When looking up this word in Webster’s Dictionary several definitions are used to describe this profound word. Love can be “a strong affection, a warm attachment, an attraction based on sexual desire, a beloved person, and an unselfishly loyal and benevolent concern for others.” Love is a very diverse topic, as discovered in the short story by Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The characters within this short story argue that love is spiritual, painstaking, a feeling to describe someone whom one enjoys being around, a way to describe a feeling that never lasts forever, and a feeling that causes one to die without their loved one. Love is a feeling so strong that it molds us into our very being.
Mel Mc Ginnis, a character from the short story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, believes that love is “nothing less than spiritual love.” Mel had drawn this conclusion from information he had gathered while attending a se...