Hm. I don't read it that way, myself. For me the central bits of the story are about how each of them learns to cope with the horrors of their environment, how each of them changes and becomes stripped bare. The relationship is critically important, but it feels less like a love story and more like...learning to trust someone who's become a stranger.
Re: Um...
Date: 2006-01-03 04:31 am (UTC)::shrug::
To each her own.