论《伤心咖啡馆之歌》中多角爱情关系所诠释的爱的绝望(英文)

First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries… It is for this reason that most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to be the lover. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain. [2]

The author explains her opinion of love—the incompetence of love. Since ancient times, most people have believed that love is omnipotent, but in this novel, love is incompetent of breaking through loneliness. Without return of love, after the intertwined of love and hate, people just hide deeper under their shell of protection.
The polyderosis love relationship of the three characters is a powerful evidence of this point of view, also implies the theme of love desperation. Loves changes the lover, but do nothing with the beloved. The three lovers’ love stories all end with tragedies. Love causes them only pain. Their love methods are one-way giving, lacking of communication on soul, as a result they will always live in loneliness.
2.2.1 Incompetent love
Though Miss Amelia is a masculine woman, she also has the right to love and is able to love. Still, neither her love for Lymon nor Marvin Macy’s love for her is incompetent of bringing her warmth and happiness. Without return of love, she bears heart-broken and hurts another one’s heart.

But at that instant, just as the fight was won, a cry sounded in the café that caused a shrill bright shiver to run down the spine…For the counter on which Cousin Lymon stood was at least twelve feet from the fighters in the center of the café. Yet at the instant Miss Amelia grasped the throat of Marvin Macy the hunchback sprang forward and sailed though the air as though he had grown hawk wings. He landed on the broad strong back of Miss Amelia and clutched at her neck with his clawed little fingers. [2]

Without return of love, broken-hearted, love just leaves more painful solitude and desperation for Amelia.
As Lymon’s behavior disappointed Miss Amelia, the latter once hurt Marvin Macy. When Marvin Macy falls love with Amelia, the solitary girl, he begins to reverse characters to court her. However, Amelia resists any such transformation. Still, Marvin Macy is the most insistent gift-giver. When he first comes to Amelia’s house, he offered “a branch of swamp flower, a sack of chitterlins, and a silver ring”[2] When it becomes clear that Miss Amelia’s willingness to marry him does not mean that she will let him into her bedroom, Macy responds by buying more gifts. “He returned with presents—an opal ring, a pink enamel Doreen of the sort which was then in fashion, a silver bracelet with two hearts on it, and a box of candy which had cost two dollars and a half.”[2] But what is Amelia’s response? “She looked over these fine gifts and opened the box of candy, for she was hungry. The rest of the presents she judged shrewdly for a moment to sum up their value—then she put them in the counter out for sale.”[2]
It seems that for Amelia Marvin Macy’s heart is also a production for sale. Having lost love, Macy returns to his old life, maybe more painful.
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