In this portrait of her development as an adolescent, Duras chronicles her growing capacity to grieve as she tells of individuating herself from her anguished family. Psychoanalyst Henry Krystal describes adolescence as a transition into adulthood and a time when an individual develops the ability to grieve (63). Her recreation of what she has lost with frequent references to death suggest a process of remembering and mourning in her writing. The novel chronicles loss [of family, innocence, a great love), mourning and discovery. They are intertwined in ways that suggest equally that as the artist recreates the teen Duras, the latter has given birth to the voice of the artist. Though the 'older' voice gives perspective and shapes the representation of the youthful self, this is not simply a dialogue or contrast between youth and age. Fernandez to her Mother.Marguerite Duras's The Lover, a fictionalized memoir of her troubled adolescence in Indochina, is narrated from the points of view of age and youth. вЂњHer kind of beauty, tattered, chilly, plaintive and in exile, nothing suits her, everything too big and yet it looks marvelous.вЂќ The narrator is indirectly comparing Ms.

The young girl she admires her physical appearance. On the other hand, Betty Fernandez is very beautiful.

To prove my point вЂњMarie-Claude Carpenter used to listen a lot, ask a lot of questions, but didnвЂ™t say muchвЂ¦straightway after the meal sheвЂ™d apologize for having to leave so soon, but she had things to doвЂ¦she never say what.вЂќ Therefore, nobody talks about her because no one knows much about her life.

She was the representation the way a woman should look and behave. Carpenter is a role model to the young girl. The young girl does not even mention them. Specifically, Marie-Claude Carpenter and Betty Fernandez are not seen in the movie. The novel The Lover has many characters that play a very important role in the life of the young lady, unlike the movie. However, the film is different from the book because it leaves out some characters, is told mostly through dialogue instead of narration, and the family of the young lady is not as important as it is in the book. In fact, they relish their prohibited love. This wonвЂ™t impede them from falling in love deeply. They know that their relationship has to end when the time come. Thus, their romance starts with an economic interest because the French girl is poor and the china man is milliner. In both versions, the love affair between a white and Chinese people is a taboo. Both the book and the film are set in French Indochina and tell the love story of a French young girl and a Chinese man in 1929. Almost a decade later it was adapted to film (1992). A book that becomes one of the best sellers she had written. Film Marguerite Duras publishes The Lover in 1884.

Imagery in the lover duras