Time can manipulate the feeling you had for a long time ago, maybe make the feeling stronger when you are thinking back or if you get your heart broken.
When you are in love, you can get badly heart broken if the other person does not feel the same way as you do. Some times your heart can get broken so badly that you will remember it for the rest of your life. This is the case in the short story “In the National Gallery” by Doris Lessing where an old man gets confronted with love from the past.
The short story takes place in the National Gallery. Next to the narrator there sits an old man and a group of French school girls stand in the other end of the room. The most beautiful girl in the group takes a seat and falls asleep on the shoulder of the old man and this makes him tell the narrator about his childhood sweetheart. When the young girl leaves the gallery with her friends, she does not look at the old man even though he wants to catch her eye.
The French girl is described as young, innocent and beautiful. On line 42 to 43 it is written: “… with a pert little face which must have smiled a hundred times to be told that it was like Audrey Hepburn’s.” The famous actress Audrey Hepburn was an icon of her time and she was well liked by everyone. Therefore it makes good sense to compare the girl to Audrey Hepburn in the following sentence as well: “She was the boss girl in this group…” (l. 43-44). The young girl is in the center of attention and the other girls are impressed by her beauty and aura. These personal traits are also shown in the painting which the old man and the narrator are looking at.
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