Some Girl Short Story Analysis

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Some Girl(s) is a story about a man who is about to get married, and like most people, he is freaking out. Instead of talking about it with his fiancé, Guy does the opposite and goes to talk to some of his ex-girlfriends. The story follows Guy as he travels across the country as he pursues to track down his ex-girlfriends. Neil LaBute uses this story not as something created to satisfy the reader on an entertainment level, but to show the reader about interpersonal relationships and the inner conflict that one man is carrying with him. He also uses the story to teach about the struggle of relationships and demonstrated that by giving a character who wronged many women whom he dated. As LaBute once said, “Relationships in general make …show more content…

Guy feels like he wronged each of these five girls, and he wants to make everything right between them before he gets married. Sam was Guy's high school sweetheart and they were promised to each other for two years, “Sam: Two years. A little over.... We were “promised” to each other for two years” (Some Girl(s) 13). Guy needed to talk with Sam because he ran away from her without any sort of explanation. As with most of the girls Guy is meeting, he ran away from them because he was scared or got another job offer. By not saying anything to his ex-girlfriends and leaving out of the blue, Guy feels the need to reconcile with these women and right the wrongs he did. Whit Sam, Guy was afraid that he would end up working at a Safeway for the rest of his life when he truly wanted to pursue his dream of being a writer. “Sam: ... and that's really it? That's the whole reason why we suddenly just ended like that? Because you had a vision of working at some Safeway for the rest of your life? Guy: Basically, yeah... I mean...” (Some Girl(s) 13). With Sam, the relationship was meant to be one of love, seeing as they were promised to each other for two years. In this particular relationship, it wasn't about being physical, the promised their virginity to one another, unlike Guy's relationship with

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