Janus by Ann Beattie

Author Ann Beatties short grade, Janus, is a falsehood about a successful real estate factor named Andrea. She believes that her ceramic whorl is the mind behind her success. The axial motion seems to delimit attention from buyers, usually go forth them speechless. In Andreas eyes, the wheel is perfect. Her husband doesnt leaven the bowl closely and just now just calls it pretty. Throughout the recital, Andrea realizes how the stolon time she saw the bowl was with the buffer she was having an affair with. Her yellowish brown asked her to choose amongst him and her husband. unavailing to decide, Andreas loer left(a) her. The profound idea of this story is that a person cannot fuck their current life jubilantly while holding on to the past.\nThe characters in Janus are the account element to fashioning the central idea clear. The protagonist of Janus is the deceptive, intelligent, un adroit, and thoughtful Andrea. She is dishonest to her clients because she ref uses 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, plain with all the perks, she cant seem to be happy with her life. Her unhappiness emphasizes her unusual shackle with the bowl. Andreas character unfolds a lot about her past, making her a round character. cunning a great get off about her, she still ashes static throughout the story and continues to be highly link to her bowl. Her husband and lover, on the otherwise hand, are flat characters. They two stay unnamed and dont relegate much about them at all within the story. The rival of the story would be her lover since he is the one who bought her the bowl. Also, he put Andrea in sadness by forcing her to decide between him and her husband. Her lover is the reason she is lifetime her life obsessed over a piece of pottery.\nThe conflicts in the story are caused by the perso nalities of the charac...