Instead of seeing the world in a positive view, Eliot depicts the world in despair. As this world falls apart, humans cling together and cooperate to get through the bad times. Lines 139-172 depict a scene in a pub that illustrates how we cling to one another even though we may not be supportive of each other. In this scene, Albert tells his wife how he thinks she is ugly and can t fulfill what he desires of her. As he goes on, she makes excuses about why she is ugly and can t do what he wants, even though his excuses are debunked by doctors that say it isn t true.
Love is one of the strongest bonds that keep any number of humans together.
This bond, combined with our natural instinct to cooperate with each other is the strongest by far one of the strongest bonds that almost nothing can break. Love stories can be one of the most complicated to describe, and once two people establish the bond of love the need to cooperate with each other no matter what falls apart in the relationship can never be broken. In Waiting, Lin Kong falls in love with Manna Wu while in the Chinese Army away from his wife Shuyu. Since adultery is considered very dishonarable in their culture, they are forced to hide their feelings until Kong can get a divorce with Shuyu. The problem comes when Shuyu refuses to settle the divorce and he is forced to wait 18 years by law to get the divorce without her consent.