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Helen and Menelaus are Jiang's negative case of marriage without love: each tells a self-serving Troy story, but neither hears the other's grief or accusation.
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Failed Love
Helen and Menelaus are Jiang's negative case of marriage without love: each tells a self-serving Troy story, but neither hears the other's grief or accusation.
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"So in other words, you're able to communicate and understand each other in an intimate language with cold words and secrets. You understand secrets,..."
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"So that's real hero of the story, okay? This is a story she tells herself. She doesn't even think about the reaction of Menelaus,..."
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"So this is not love. They are together because they're stuck together, okay? Now we're going to see a different version, okay? We're going..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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