Lack there of, something is missing.
In Janice Radway’s chapter, Women Read The Romance, she explains how romance readings serve as escape from social responsibilities and reality for women. “They value their romances highly because the act of reading them literally draws women away from their present surroundings.” These women live vicariously through fictionalized love stories in order to engage themselves in their ideal world and relieve themselves from the world they currently live in. In essence, they lose themselves in between the pages of Nora Roberts, Karen Harper, and Ann Maxwell’s works. What lead them to create a fantasy world in their mind instead of just living it? Why do some women choose to settle for husbands who come back from work and question the choices they made that day? Women whitewash their deepened sadness by claiming that “they believe that reading of any kind is, by nature, educational.” The surrounding reality of these women does not match the romantic fantasies they’ve created in their minds. “Everyone is always under so much pressure. They like books that let them escape. Because it is an escape and we can dream. And pretend that it is our life."
This brings me to a clip from a film that I think relates to one of the underlying reasons why women choose to read romantic novels in efforts to escape from their reality. There is an unspoken lack of human communication and connection.
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