Love In L. A. Analysis

Love in L.A., is a short story about a man named Jake, who basically uses his imagination a lot. He is in his car in the middle of a traffic jam on the Hollywood freeway, lost in thought about a better life. He gets in to a minor accident and meets a pretty lady; who he now wants to talk to. He makes up this false image of a man who he thinks will impress the lady, but she doesn’t bite. They finish there interaction, then he gets back in his car and continues to live in his imagination, in the now moving traffic. Jake to me is not a very likeable character, despite of half of the story being in his head; it seems to me that he truthful, in tuned, unpleasant and a selfish. Spending so much time in his head, I feel he is missing out on the real joys of life. And the fact that he either doesn’t trust or want anyone to know who he is unsettling. I feel like he really doesn’t care that much for people, because he doesn’t feel like to be in the world where we are.
Imagination is a good tool, but to live majority of your life in there, has to be disappointing. Once you leave your imaginary world, whatever awesome things you had in that life, most likely will not exists in the real world. In Jake’s case he brings prat of his imaginary …show more content…
Hopefully, in my mini essay I provided you with a reason to think that he is not a very convincing or likable person. I gave you the main reason on why I think he is not very convincing, along with a little bit of evidence. My main reasons were, that he is to stuck in his imagination and that he lies. My evidence was, the fact that he got into an accident from not paying attention and that he basically gave Mariana a fake identity. It also helps if it can be in an order, easy for the readers to follow. I styled mine, with the main issue and then went into explaining it, with facts, reasons, and or pieces of the