"Enduring Love"

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This paper examines how Ian McEwan's novel, "Enduring Love", is a psychological thriller of a novel that tells the story of Joe Rose and his lover, Clarissa. It looks at how the theme of the paradoxically enduring nature of unhealthy, fixated love emerges in Joe's struggle to evade the grasp of the stalker, Joe Parry. It also discusses how this theme emerges in what seems to be a quite minor character and in a comical and incidental scene where Joe is attempting to buy a gun to free himself of his attacker.

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"At times, Clarissa often acts in a mother-like fashion towards Joe, from preparing his food to soothing his supposedly foolish anxieties. In this scene, however, another mother-like figure emerges. Perhaps the most poignant character, however, present in the commune-type environment is the woman who serves food and cooks for most of the characters in the home. Joe Rose notes, again with a barely concealed sneer, that he always used to wonder what happened to such women. He notes that the lifestyle of such hippie women somewhat predated feminism, and it seemed that their function in society was to bake the hash brownies and to clean up after the men around them."

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