Lust | Social Concerns
"Lust" focuses primarily on the difficulty young people in modern society have in forming meaningful relationships. The protagonist in "Lust" is an unnamed upper-class teenage girl away at boarding school who engages in a series of brief and unsatisfying relationships.
Each time she begins a relationship, the protagonist hopes and believes that the initial physical engagement will lead to a greater emotional connection. At first, encounters with the opposite sex are pleasant. She says, "their eyes [are] at a low burn and their hands no matter what starting off shy and with such a...
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