Critical Analysis of A Courtney Love Story
Critical Analysis of A Courtney Love Story
A Country Love Story presents the destruction of an earthly heaven by the “word” that created it.
The story concentrates upon a couple that moved to the countryside to find their peace, peace recommended by doctor Tellenbach especially for Daniel who was in a sanatorium for a year. It is a kind of withdrawal in a peaceful word in which only good things are expected to happen. But in life nothing happens, as we would expect it. Everything is turned upside down by destiny, fate that is unknown to us. This happens in our story, too.
The main ideas of the story are built on a series of contradictions (man ~ female, past ~ present, reality ~ imagination, nature ~ human nature) that occur in the life of Daniel and May at a moment when their marriage suffers a break caused by a limit situation.
The main conflict emerges from these contradictions that center on the “word”, that created the world and gathered people, but meanwhile, it is capable to separate them. This statement is valid in our case too. The first strange thing that May noticed is that “they were silent too much of the time” and “their silence was often nettlesome to her”. Silence is an equivalent of the lack of communication that destroys the unity of a couple. Each of them has another aim in life. We are told that the “raison d’ecirctre” for Daniel is to write a book, that is to express his scientific ideas by means of words while May tries to use words to communicate with her husband. But Daniel’s leaving her without words thrown her into a world of silence, guilt, and anxiety, a world of imagination.
At the beginning of their journey, we can identify in Daniel and May the primordial couple. When they bought the new house, their marriage flourished; they shared everything: ideas, charming sights, love and even the house. It was for them like a second honeymoon. In fact, they had a common aim: to mend the house. Eventually, winter came and “the major works of the house were to be postponed”. Having no more the mutual aim, Daniel estranged from May. This freeze of their relationship freezes Time for May in a way predicted by Doctor Tellenbach’s words: “a long illness removes a thoughtful man from his fellow beings....