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The Empty Bowl on 8220Janus8221

;t keep it carefully wrapped…” (Par. 7). The fact that she did not keep it carefully wrapped means that she did not take care very well of her love and the relationship could only end the way it did.Paragraph eight is key in understanding Andrea’s reasons to find a new love and why this love is so special to her. She describes her husband’s reaction to the bowl, which really symbolizes his reaction when he notices that something is different. He notices she is happy even dough he does not know why. He smiles and says the bowl is pretty, glad to see that his wife is happy but never examining the reason, he never picks up the bowl and looks at it closely. Andrea also notices that he has no more interest in her bowl that she has in his camera, which probably symbolizes his lover.The main character fells this love brings her luck, she is selling more houses than ever and the bowl becomes more and more important to her. One day Andrea forgets the bowl in one of the houses she is trying to sell, she gets desperate and rushes back to the house. In the first moment she fells that she does not have her love or that she might lose it, she gets desperate and runs back to him. Her lover, who thinks it is strange that she is back, does not notice until that moment how carefully she had introduced her love into his life. Towards the end of the story Andrea wants to tell her husband about her lover and explain to him all that it means for her. She does not know where to start, she wants to tell him but cannot make herself do it and she fells guilty for having that secret every time she looks at him.Slowly, Andrea was building a mysterious relationship with the bowl and she felt thankful for the bowl’s help in selling the houses. That made her think how long is this love going to last and the fact that it never demands anything, back made her uncomfortable: “ It was frustrating, because her evolvement with the bo...

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