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1、The love of NettlesAfter reading the Nettles by Alice Munro，I was mostly impressed bywhat the protagonist finally concluded：Love that was not usable,thatknew its place。Not risking a thing yet staying alive as sweet trickle，anunderground resource。With the weight of this new stillness on it，thisseal.T

2、his essay is full of their complex and subtle feelings towards eachother。By metaphor,Nettles represents something irritating anddisturbing。Her mistaking joy-pye weeds implies that ordinary life ismore like the insignificant-looking nettles that are stinging and piercing.Like nettles，it was not easy

3、for both to deal with these feelings.Theauthor employs a skillful but natural narrative voice,which effortlesslyleads the readers on toward a natural understanding of love as theprotagonist concluded about it。When they were in childhood，Mike and she were good friends andhad a time of happiness.She d

4、escribed the plot of game in details:shemade weapons for Mike,and dressed his wounds.Mine was the nameMike called her.“There was a keen alarm when the cry came,a wirezinging through your whole body,a fanatic feeling of devotion。Sherecalled。Her admirations for him and her emotional reliance on him-pu

5、ppy love，were gradually founded in that time and in all the activitiesand games they enjoyed together。As a child,she did not know whatthat feeling is.She thought she could accept future absence.That isbecause she had no idea of what absence could be like until Mikedisappeared。From that time on,the“l

6、ove trickle began to flow in herheart.As time goes by，she was confronted with problems of passions，confusions and dilemmas that most middle-aged women would meet.Her dreams and ambitions were distracted by noising children and fussyhousework.Follow her heart,she left husband and house and all thethi

7、ngs acquired during the marriage，in the hope of making a life thatcould be lived without hypocrisy,or deprivation or shame。When wasasked by the children and husband“why cant you just live at home？,she did not know how to respond。She was confused and lost herself.She called her leave a long necessary

8、 voyage from the house of marriage.Actually,she got into a common dilemma and struggled between naturaldesire for freedom and the confinement of marriage.As a middle-agedwoman,she began to doubt the meaning of marriage，and was learningto take sex lightly,which was not easy for her because that is no

9、t the wayshe started out and she was not young，but she was learning.Just atthis point of time,Mike appeared.In these few days,she allowed herself to indulge in，in her words，lightheaded imaginations as an adolescent girls，including being awife,a role she was trying to escape,and sex which she was lea

10、rning totake lightly.Now,she felt that he was the person she always loved,butshe didnt know what was in Mike s mind。She wanted to touch Mikewhen watching stars；her sexual desire for Mike was aroused when lyingon the same sheet Mike had used.She just raised questions，supposedand then answered by hers

11、elf。Anyhow,in her mind，mike loved her。Then by chance，they experienced together a rainstorm，in which Miketried to protect her。After the storm,they kissed and pressed togetherbriefly out of a ritual,a recognition of survival rather than of their bodiesinclinations。Mike said，“There is something I did n

12、ot mention to you。”Why Mike didnt tell her before the storm。It was because that of their childhood,the things Mike rememberedwere different from the things she remembered.They were not muchfamiliar to each other now.Through the heavy rainstorm,just as throughthe clay cannonballs in their childhood，t

13、hey knew something togetherand it bound them.The experience in the storm shortened the distancebetween her and Mike.In a sense,the rain washed away the lust of herand purified her mind，thus purifying their relationship.The stormprovided a necessary circumstance for what would happen next。Havingheari

14、ng about the death of Mike s son,she knew that he was a personwho had hit rock bottom which only he and his wife knew and it boundthem together firmly。At end，she understood this was just whatmarriage meantsomething in common that would bind you for life。She was the only person whom he told about his

15、 sons death.Sherealized she was a person he had,on his own,who knew.That wasenough;that was all。She finally knew the place of their love,and did not risk a thing。What happened or rather，what did not happen between them givesher a new perception of love and marriage.I believed,she wouldeventually go back to her family and live well with her husband andchildren。