A Story of Love

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Ali Smith / A story of love A story of love, is a short story written by Ali Smith. The story is from a short story collection, which name is Other stories and Other Stories. Ali Smith published her collection in 1999. Ali Smith was an English lecturer at Strathclyde University, until she became full-time writer. You should think that, A story called love, is a real love story, but actually it is not. Instead it is a lot of uncompleted story's, which is far from what we thought, when we saw the title. The story takes place in a bedroom, where the two people tells their stories. They narrator who also is the listener in the story, wants to hear a love story. But the person who tells the uncompleted stories, are not able to tell a whole story. (p.2 l.11 That's hardly a love story, is it?) The person who is listening to the story's are not satisfied with his stories. He tries many times, with many different stories, but nothing is good enough. So instead he persuade her to tell a story, so she can see how difficult it is. An as he expected, she also had a hard time telling a love story. (p. 111 l. 14 So I told the next story, and as it unfolded I realized how exciting it could be to know more about a story than you knew) Now she knew why it was difficult to tell the story. It was exiting to know more about a story than the other part. I do not think, there is much love in this story. It is defiantly not a normal type of love. It is a lot of small stories inside a big one. Which makes it very confused. It is very difficult to find the meaning in the story. The Narrator of this story, is actually also a part of the story. The Narrator is the person who listens to the person, who tries to tell a love story. I think it is very confusing, that they do not finish a story, before they starts to tell a new one. The narrator is very demanding about the
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