1; and are treated as such. Gary Soto at the end of this short story I believe overcame his selfquestioning of whether or not Carolyn was right for him. It is a shame that oneis socially conditioned so much that he or she would have to justify theirvalidity and wanting of another human being. I suspect that this is simply justanother characteristic out of a million that has evolved out of a complex socialorder. It saddens me sometimes to think that I often believe that there arepeople for me and people that are not for me. In actuality, there are no rulesto relationships that determine who one ought to marry. These are all what Iwill term social constraints....
