What better way to outline your affections towards a lady then to say how her virginity symbolizes a "quaint honor" (29), which makes it a redundant expression considering the speaker is trying to win the fondness of the female. ... Considering the two variables used for comparison are not of the same category makes them rationally incomparable. ... In account, the title of the essay is related to the theme of insult and how the act of courtship is replaced by exaggerated metaphorical expressions that invite lust from lies", not love from truth. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"We all get involved in a moment of emotion then we cannot get out. War and love - they have always been compared- (152). In The Quiet American, Fowler calls Pyle romantic. Being a romantic, it is his emotion, which drives him to act, not his reason. And acting upon emotions without any reasonable t...

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• Grade Level: High School

"We all get involved in a moment of emotion then we cannot get out. War and love - they have always been compared- (152). In The Quiet American, Fowler calls Pyle romantic. Being a romantic, it is his emotion, which drives him to act, not his reason. And acting upon emotions without any reasonable t...

• Word Count: 840
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School