Romance is one of the themes associated in Gary Shteyngart’s novel, Super Sad True Love Story. It is about the growing love between two individuals and the extremities that one would go through for their significant other.
An example would be the part where Lenny was hanging out with his friends and they were streaming the emotions that he had for Eunice, the girl he fell in love with. Lenny “started to blabber about how much she meant to [him]” (p. 93) and started talking about how they hung out and of how she paid attention to him. This shows the qualities that he finds in a girl. Judging by what he says, one can tell that Lenny is a man of affection. He wants someone who would listen to everything he has to say and just be there for him whenever he needs her.
This passage shows the love that Lenny has for Eunice where he starts talking to himself, and making a mental note that he is “not going to screw this up… [he had] been given a chance to help the most beautiful woman in the world,” and the fact that he could “show her that adult love can overcome childhood pain” (p. 100). He wanted everything to be perfect so that she would love him the way he loved her. Lenny wanted to be everything he could be for this woman and he wants to prove this to her so she could overcome her pain and accept the love that he has to offer. This shows that people who are deeply in love with someone would do anything for that person because they would want that other person to feel happy.
Finally yet importantly, in the passage that says, “You’re really hurting me Grace…How can you judge her so quickly? How can you judge us?” (p. 163) shows the effort Lenny has put into defending Eunice. He went from questioning Grace on how she was able to judge Eunice then he added in the world “us” which shows the linkage he had made by being with his love. That word unifies the two and this implies that he is willing to defend her no matter what and that he would not put up with people whom do not accept the love between them.
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