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Lust Study Guide

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by Susan Minot
About 54 pages (16,204 words)
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Social Concerns

"Lust" focuses primarily on the difficulty young people in modern society have in forming meaningful relationships. The protagonist in "Lust" is an unnamed upper-class teenage girl away at boarding school who engages in a series of brief and unsatisfying relationships.

Each time she begins a relationship, the protagonist hopes and believes that the initial physical engagement will lead to a greater emotional connection. At first, encounters with the opposite sex are pleasant.

She says, "their eyes [are] at a low burn and their hands no matter what starting off shy and with such a gentle touch." Yet, inevitably, these initially appealing encounters wither into a meaningless physicality. Each man with whom she engages leaves the protagonist feeling empty and unfulfilled.

Thus, after spending an entire day in bed with one man, she then.....

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