The stories Good People by David Foster Wallace and The Love of My Life by T. C. Boyle, are about young couples facing unwanted pregnancies. The main characters of the stories have many similarities and differences.
In the story Good People, the main characters are Lane Dean and Sheri, and in the story The Love of My Life, the main characters are Jeremy and China. The characters are similar in that Sheri and China both got pregnant at a young age; they nor their partners were ready to have a baby, and they all had bright futures ahead of them. Good People said, "Lane Dean was in accounting and business." "His mother had put it that she knows what it is she wanted, which was nursing and not an easy program at Peoria Junior College, and plus she worked hostessing at the Embers and had brought her own car." In The Love of My Life, Boyle says, "'Look, you've already been accepted at your first-choice school, you're going to wind up in the top G. P. A. -wise, and you've got four years of tests and term papers ahead of you, and grad school after that." This shows how dedicated and focused China was on her future. Boyle describes how driven Jeremy was by saying, "He'd been accepted at Brown, his father's alma mater, and his own G. P. A. would put him in the top ten percent of their graduating class, and he was content with that, skating through his final semester, no math, no science, taking art and music, the things he'd always wanted to take but never had time for---and Lit. , of course, A. P. History, and Spanish 5." Lean Dean, Sheri, Jeremy, and China were striving for success after high school, and having a baby would put their plans on hold.
Although Good People and The Love of My Life have some similarities, they also have many differences. The main characters in G...
