A service of love

I am almost done with the short story collection of O'Henry, these short stories are compact and interesting. The story called"A service of love", relating to the poem about love by St.  Lucia Derek  Walcott. Authors, poets and singers all like use the theme of love because of its permanence and pure. When I first saw the title of this short story, I expected to see the responsibility and duty for each of the couple supposed to do.Then I realized that the service here meant "sacrament". An aspiring artist, Joe Larrabeen from the Midwest and Delia Caruthers, a young talented musician meet in New York in an atelier where a number of youthful artists have met to discuss composers and painter.  There they are attracted to each other; shortly thereafter, they marry. They have to give up their dreams of art to sustain their lives and earned money.  As O'Henry declared "This story shall draw a conclusion from it, and show at the same time that the premise is incorrect. That will be a new thing in logic, and a feat in story-telling somewhat older than the great wall of China". Actually, there is a famous legend about love relating to Great Wall in China, when emperor Qingshihuang announced to build the Great Wall, lots of men were caught by the official federals, a man named "meng"was one of them. However, it was really difficult and dangerous to do such a heavy work without machine or technique at that time, he finally dead because of exhaustion. After hearing about the death of her husband, Meng immediately arrived to Great Wall to find her husband but she could not even find his body, she suddenly turned around and jumped into nearby sea.

"When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard".