A tragic love story, yet very interesting and engaged with real life examples. The main character is a big jock rich hokey player studying in Harvard, Oliver Barret IV; and a beautiful, smart but poor young lady from Rhode Island, studying in Radcliffe, Jennifer Cavalleri. They meet at Radcliffe library, where Jenny makes her first move and tricks Ollie into buying her coffee. The first date goes well and they now proceed to the second stage where Ollie invites Jenny to his hockey game.
By this time, Jenny knows more about Oliver. She knows that he has a hall in Harvard by his family name, his aspiration is law school, his father is a banker and was a famous athlete, Ollie’s relationship with his father is very tense and formal etc. On the other hand it conflicts with Jenny, whose father (Phil) is a baker from Rhode Island, her mother died in a car accident, she works at the library and studies music, dreams of going to Paris…
So, we can conclude that we have different conflicts about the two personalities. They differ in classes, rich vs. poor; conflict of parents occupations, baker vs. banker. We also have ethnicity conflicts. However, those conflicts don’t stop them and gradually they fall in love with each other. A funny thing about the first six chapters is that Ollie was always used of being on top, but when he’s with Jenny she seems like she’s in control and he somehow feels insecure. Jenny really crossed boundaries with her connection with Ollie, because many people might get the wrong idea that she’s in it for the money. As the story goes along, Jenny tells Ollie that she got a scholarship for Paris and she’s thinking about going there. Ollie quickly reacts and proposes her marriage by giving her a very strange answer. “Why do you wanna marry me? Because”!
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