Janus by Ann Beattie

Author Ann Beatties short figment, Janus, is a recital about a flourishing real estate broker named Andrea. She believes that her ceramic pipe sports stadium is the ground behind her success. The paradiddle seems to bait attention from buyers, usually departure them speechless. In Andreas eyes, the bowl is perfect. Her husband doesnt try out the bowl closely and merely just calls it pretty. Throughout the taradiddle, Andrea realizes how the commencement time she saw the bowl was with the rooter she was having an affair with. Her buff asked her to choose amid him and her husband. futile to decide, Andreas l everywhere left her. The central idea of this story is that a person cannot go their current life merrily while holding on to the past.\nThe characters in Janus are the constitute element to devising the central idea clear. The protagonist of Janus is the deceptive, intelligent, un apt, and reflective Andrea. She is dishonest to her clients because she refuse s to tell them where she got the bowl from. Her deceptive techniques to sell houses shows her intelligence. In addition to her successful career, she has a husband and financial security. However, all the same with all the perks, she cant seem to be happy with her life. Her unhappiness emphasizes her unusual fastening with the bowl. Andreas character unfolds a lot about her past, making her a round character. subtle a great brood about her, she still remains static throughout the story and continues to be highly tie to her bowl. Her husband and lover, on the early(a) hand, are flat characters. They twain stay unnamed and dont break down much about them at all within the story. The obstructer of the story would be her lover since he is the one who bought her the bowl. Also, he put Andrea in mourning by forcing her to decide between him and her husband. Her lover is the reason she is nutriment her life obsessed over a piece of pottery.\nThe conflicts in the story are cause d by the personalities of the charac...