At one point in my book, Aron goes away to college, leaving his family and his girlfriend, Abra, behind. While he was away he became more in love with Abra than he had certainly ever shown before. He wrote notes, composed poems, and could not wait to return to her again. It reminds me of a saying I have heard before that goes "absence makes the heart grow fonder." I happen to be a believer of this truth. Almost my entire family lives in South Carolina, and although I do not get to see them often, I have several cousins that are as close to me as sisters. (108) Both my father and two of my younger siblings also live in South Carolina, and we have a wonderful relationship together that we might have taken for granted if they had lived closer.
The one problem where the story is concerned, however, is that Abra believes he is building her up far too much. He only sees what he wants her to be, pure, young, and beautiful with no flaws. She becomes frightened that when he comes back and rediscovers these flaws he will no longer love her as much. Aron is doing the same thing to Abra that is father before him did to Cathy. He is blinding himself by his fantastical vision and is unable to see what is really there. I wonder if Stienbeck made that analogy on purpose, to illustrate how much like his father Aron really is. If this is the case, I believe Aron will react in a similar way of his father when he finds out who his mother really is.
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