A Symbol of Love In “Janus”, Andrea’s lover buys her a bowl at a crafts fair. “It was his idea that when he could not be there to hold her hand she could hold her own.”(16) Throughout this story Andrea becomes attached to the bowl because it reminds her of her lover. The author takes the audience through the many stages of Andrea’s love affair. In “Janus” Ann Beattie uses a bowl as …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…cannot pretend anymore. “She would not decide in his favor”(17) She wanted to keep her life as it was. Her lover ! soon left her because she “could not have it both ways.” The story ends with Andrea alone in the living room sitting in the dark. Her eye is fixed on the bowl at a “small flash of blue, a vanishing point on the horizon” hoping that one day her love will return. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**