![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, as everyone falls completely silent and sits still in the dark room, Nick hears their hearts beating together. The diminishing sunlight in the kitchen where the four friends are talking parallels their gradually diminishing confidence and clarity about love, and Nick’s comment suggests that he isn’t afraid of this looming uncertainty. In this moment, Nick comments that he’d be content heading “right on out into the sunset”-and though he says this in passing, it’s symbolically significant. Indeed, toward the end of the story, the conversation has died down, and the characters are trying to decide what to do next. Whereas Mel and Terri are set on coming to a precise definition and understanding of love, Nick is seemingly comfortable with having an emotional and bodily experience of romance without needing to analyze it. Unlike the other characters in the story, Nick doesn’t claim to know what love means, and he expresses his affection for Laura solely through nonverbal gestures like touching her leg or kissing her hand. Nick and Laura have been together for 18 months, and they were both married to other people prior to their relationship. Nick is 38, and though he doesn’t give away much about himself, it’s implied that he’s a lawyer (he and Laura, a legal secretary, “met in a professional capacity”). Nick is the narrator of the story he’s Laura’s husband and Mel and Terri’s friend. ![]()
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