“A Very Short Story”

It is a very short story which is just as same as its topic. In these few paragraphs give a deep expression to the readers. The main character Luz sounds like “lose” in English and it implies that Luz is going to lose in the end. She maintains the development of the whole story.

In the story, it says that a man who is completely falling love with Luz, and he helps her to do her duties by checking patients temperature, even though he is a patient too. This action shows how deep the man loves the girl. They are supposed to get married, “but there was not enough time for the banns.”(P3) Before the armistice, Luz sends many letters to the man; she tells him she misses him very much. However, after the armistice, Luz asks him if he can have a good job, they will get married. In this case, I believe Luz is already with the Italian man. She knows that the man cannot find the job, so she says like so. Then the man comes back to America, he knows what happens between Luz and the Italian, and they are going to get married in the spring. The man knows that Luz loses. She is not his Luz anymore, so he probably becomes alcoholic and sleeps around. That is why he gets disease from a sales girl.  

Certainly, if Luz doesn’t give too much hope to the man, it won’t happen. If she can be honest in the end, why can’t she be honest in the beginning? I think her name has another meaning which is “loser”. She may have two men at same times, but she becomes alone in the end, so she is a “loser”. We all know that having affair will hurt both the party and the victim thus. Furthermore, the man in the story is very incapable, if he loves the girl very much, he will find a good future for her, but he doesn’t. Also, after he is hurt by Luz’s betray, he doesn’t bestir himself up. This causes him has the duty-bound with getting disease to end up. All of them become a tragedy.