Romance, everyone wants it but others fear it, for it may show people a side of them that they do not wish to share. In her short story "Not a Good Girl", Perri Klass' main character, the narrator is a successful Immunologist speaking at a conference and has what she calls a "two-night stand" with Eric, an attendee. During her description of how her weekend was, small details of romance wishes start to appear.
The narrator, the woman, appears to be a career-goal oriented person; well, at least that is how she describes herself. It appears throughout the story that she is afraid to get romantically involved with someone. At this seminar she is giving, she meets a graduate student of immunology who keeps her company through out the weekend.
Through out the story, she makes several mentions of romance and the lack of romance in Eric's approach. She also describes the light of the moon on their first encounter as a silver splash. All these words make it seem that she does want......
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