The short story "Married Love" by Tessa Hadley appeared in the October 8, 2007 issue of The New Yorker. Tessa is the author of two highly praised novels and lives in Cardiff, Whales where she teaches English and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
This fictional story, which follows the life of a young girl who falls in young love with her professor, is about the childish notion of love, and the long journey of life with a husband from another generation. Lottie's husband Edgar writes music. She says at one point that she believes he writes music FOR her, but not ABOUT her. This young girl who thinks she has found it all when she marries the man of her dreams, soon finds out the harsh reality. The story beings with Lottie talking about how she is in love and is getting married. In the midddle of the story the tone changes dramatically from excitement to dull and poignant. The tone of the story is somewhat symbolic of what is actually going on in the story. She is excited to get married to this older man whom she thinks she loves, but as she gets older and has kids, he begins to be more and more distant and spend more and more time at his ex-wife's house. The story ends with Lottie listening intently to the sounds in the kitchen, seemingly looking for "her" music.
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