The Story of a Lover

"The Story of a Lover" by Hutchins Hapgood is a novel that looks closely at love and relationships in the 1900s. It follows a man who is very interested in love, and we hear his thoughts about a woman he loves. She is hard to get close to and emotionally unavailable to him. The man thinks a lot about how people connect, what it means to be yourself, and how hard it can be to truly know someone else. The story starts with the man, who is thirty, falling in love with a woman who doesn't seem to care about him. He thinks about his life, his art, and how hard he tries to connect with his wife. As their marriage goes on, he feels like she doesn't really understand him, which makes him feel a mix of love, wanting more, and feeling annoyed. The book shows how their differences affect their relationship and examines marriage deeper than just romance.