Janus by Ann Beattie

Author Ann Beatties short boloney, Janus, is a drool about a favored real estate instrument named Andrea. She believes that her ceramic domain is the resolve behind her success. The trough seems to assimilate attention from buyers, usually going them speechless. In Andreas eyes, the sphere is perfect. Her husband doesnt pick up the bowl closely and scarcely just calls it pretty. Throughout the romance, Andrea realizes how the scratch time she saw the bowl was with the yellowish brown she was having an affair with. Her rooter asked her to choose amongst him and her husband. ineffectual to decide, Andreas l over unexpended her. The substitution idea of this story is that a person cannot stand their current life happily while holding on to the past.\nThe characters in Janus are the rudimentary element to make the central idea clear. The protagonist of Janus is the deceptive, intelligent, un prosperous, and broody Andrea. She is dishonest to her clients because she refuses to tell them where she got the bowl from. Her deceptive techniques to sell houses shows her intelligence. In addition to her successful career, she has a husband and financial security. However, rase with all the perks, she cant seem to be happy with her life. Her unhappiness emphasizes her unusual adherence with the bowl. Andreas character unfolds a lot about her past, making her a round character. learned a great hired man about her, she still clay static throughout the story and continues to be highly accustomed to her bowl. Her husband and lover, on the some other hand, are flat characters. They both(prenominal) stay unnamed and dont break up much about them at all within the story. The opposer of the story would be her lover since he is the one who bought her the bowl. Also, he put Andrea in sorrowfulness by forcing her to decide between him and her husband. Her lover is the reason she is breathing her life obsessed over a piece of pottery.\nThe conflicts i n the story are caused by the personalities of the charac...