COMPARATIVE ESSAY

Comparative essay

Comparative essay

Milan Kundera's is a short story based on a young couple who is going for weekend holidays. The couple seems to be happy, but the person who reads quickly becomes conscious that each one has some impractical expectation of the other. When the two stop for a bathroom break, they start an unplanned role-playing game. As the young man drag the car up to pick his girlfriend, she sticks out her thumb as if she is hitchhiking. When she gets in, the two carry the game, act as strangers. They continue the game throughout the car ...