and contentment". Is it possible to obtain and conquer happiness? In the short story

"How", Lorrie Moore believes that life's occurrences fall into a subsequent order, and the

characterization of sincere happiness does not fall into this arrangement. For "from time to

time you will gaze at his face and his hands and want nothing but him", but eventually love

begins to fade. Passion fades into confusion, leading to boredom, lies, suffocation, and a

search for a reason to stay (Moore 79). Does love always fade off into the distance? Is

pessimism a way of life? Or could it be that this negative order reveals the fate of only a

small amount of people, leaving millions in a world of happiness.

Moore refers to attempts in life as tries that "sputter and deflate like balloons"

(Moore 79). Although many goals in life do fail, it is wrong to believe that no matter how

hard one tries, the attempt will turn out pointless. One should not give up because love

annoyed. Does her behavior show that this woman does not want to be happy? Unlike her

finds him reading the very same book she was reading the day before, and listening to the

die" (Moore 82). She feels as though there is no other way to get out of the relationship.

possible that her boyfriend could be the perfect man, the one every woman dreams about,

other and speaks to this person with acceptance and appreciation.

The only way to reach true bliss is by waiting for her significant other to reach his last

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)