I thought this story was extremly well written but I wondered at the end if they were really happy. He was at first so awed by her beauty and talks about her like she is something above the rest of the people around. But then when they have sex the first time, and he realizes how inexperienced she is, how “innocent”, his whole tone towards her changes. Suddenly it feels as though he thinks of her as sub-human. As if he was her superior or “parent”, if you will. He feels as though he knows her better then she does herself. Knows what is best for her. For example his fixation on her having an orgasim. Which she finally does at the end – and then what? He is finally satisfied in what he wanted from her but she seems like she is kind of shattered. She is completely raw and insecure and bare to the point where she does turn to him for comfort, with no practiced emotions, or pretending. Is that love?
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But do you think he left her because of that innocence, or was he trying to bring it out in her? In the beginning he speaks of her near-ethereal beauty and being because that is how he views her: Orra at Harvard – Orra the goddess, his Nike, his Cleopatra. She is an imaged constructed of what others wish her to be and her desire to sate those desires (she becomes their image, and her image of herself becomes a reflection of that being – she does as she think she should). After almost deconstructing this image, I don’t think he tosses her aside because of her innocence. Rather, I think she gains a sort of innocence by the end of the story. She becomes human – raw and aching and true, Orra as Orra and only as she wishes to be. I guess his fixation on her orgasm could be some proof of manliness for him, but I thought of it as a sort of affection. He wants her to feel, to be in the experience and to yearn and to grow – at this point, he has begun to see bare Orra. And at the end, when she is raw and insecure, she has completed a revelation of sorts: she is no longer an images or goddess. She is human.