Now, without enough money for graduate school, James nonetheless heads to New York City with his parents' blessing, and waits outside Em's apartment. She is reluctant to talk to him, feeling she has ruined everything. James tells her he sees her in a different way than she sees herself. Touched, Em brings James up to her apartment. James reveals he is not going to Columbia this year, and considers next year. He gets out of his wet clothes and finds Em still has an Adventureland shirt. They kiss and begin to take their clothes off. James asks, "Are we doing this?", and Em says, "I think so."
A week later, Em asks James if he's going to do something instead of hanging around her apartment. James says, "I don't know. Maybe I'll get a job at McDonald's."
Em kicks him out and finds someone else who isn't as sweet as James but is at least doing something with his life.
The End.
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JohnathanGoldsmith
8 years ago
Women who insist on having relationships only with men who are, 'doing something with their lives', are often the ones who'd love nothing more than to quit working, crap out a couple of kids, and stay home. Their insistence that their men be goal-driven and ambitious is really a kind of reaction formation, i.e., an attempt to deal with their deeply felt sense of their own lack of any ambition beyond procreation.
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