just wondering

Pip chases this dream of being a gentleman and winning over a girl above his station. I see the romance but ultimately he doesn't find either love or happiness.

i was looking over some of the other posts and bumming that we didn't talk more about 'great expectations,' and i saw eric's comment above. i was ruminating about hixx's thoughts about GE being a romantic book. and then i put the two together and thought "is a happy ending necessary for something to be romantic?"

i don't know. really, i'm probably not the first person to go to about romance. but as i type this, i realize that most people think 'romeo and juliet' is probably one of the most romantic stories evah, and that things is also depressing as hell.

i don't know what i really think romance is. i guess i've always considered it somewhat of a fantasy, an infatuation that by its own device has to have happiness or some sort of dream of happiness wrapped up into it. i don't even know what i'm trying to get at other than ... what IS romance? what makes something romantic? what is *a* romance?

there's more ... myay!

now smuss it.