"Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out." Eve's Diary is a comic short story first published in 1906, and is Twain's perspective on the ever-lasting rivalry between the two sexes. The story is witty, humorous and inspired, with the story beginning with Eve's perspective, only to later transition to Adam's. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (1835-1910) better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' (1876). He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit & satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty, eventually earning the moniker or "the father of American literature".
Publication Year: 1905
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Wow this was... bad. It started off kinda interesting, then suddenly it plummeted down in a straight line into the earth's core.
It's so... bad.
Eve is terribly written. She actually says, and I quote "If he (Adam) should beat me and abuse me, I should go on loving him. I know it. It is a matter of sex, I think."
It left me completely flabbergasted, because she just says that out of nowhere when she can't figure out why she loves Adam.
Adam, who thinks if she didn't talk too much he could finally enjoy looking at her because she's beautiful.
Truth be told, Eve is not the only one wondering why she loves Adam, I am wondering why she loves him, too.
The only good thing Adam ever said about her was in the form of cheap poetry at the very end, after she died.
At some point he does grudgingly concede that her disposition to test everything and discover new things might not be so bad (Emphasis on grudgingly)
But in the end, Eve went from a curious little thing with wonder in her heart to a cringy man-obsessed woman whose whole world rovolved solely around a half-interested Adam.
Are we supposed to believe that's romantic or something?
I understand that love is selfless, but not to the point where you end up with no self-love left at all. Like Eve.
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