Response to "Why the Marriage Need Never Get Old"

  Just as the author said, "as long as marriage and love and relationships have high stakes for us emotionally, they have the potential to offer rich subject material for novelists, no matter how flimsy or comparatively uninteresting contemporary relationships seem on their surface." I agree with her opinion that love is an eternal theme for art.

  At the beginning, author mentioned an English professor's argue, “In the days when success in life had depended on marriage, and marriage had depended on money, novelists had a subject to write about. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce had undone it completely. What would it matter whom Emma [Bovary] married if she could file for separation later?”His argue seems quite reasonable at first. However, after several read and thinking, it becomes laughable.The contemporary social conditions can never become the excuse for contemporary novel's ordinary, for art art is the deposit of life.