Saturday, January 4, 2014

Give an example of a movie or book character who thinks that their lover or friend isn't as great as they previously thought they were. For...

In the movie 500 Days of Summer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character Tom spends nearly two years pining for his ex-girlfriend Zooey Deschanel Summer, who broke up with him. Throughout the movie, which works as a series of flashbacks to the origins and then ending of the Summer-Tom relationship, it becomes clear that, despite Tom's insistence otherwise, that Summer is not the woman for him. He is so convinced that they are made for each other, he misreads an invitation to her party as a chance to win her back when, in reality, it was a party she was holding with her fiancé.  


Throughout the movie, Summer says that she doesn't believe in love, but she remains with Tom for several months. Their relationship looks like love to him, but it's clear in these flashbacks that she is not happy with their relationship and that it's one built on convenience, not on love. In fact, she continues to insist to himself that it is true love. 


Tom doesn't realize that Summer isn't as great as he wanted her to be, at least for him, until after this party and really doesn't get over her until he meets the aptly named Autumn at a job interview. 

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