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In “No One’s a Mystery”, the narrator and the character Jack are unrealistically in love. They share different views on the outcome of their relationship and Jack seems to be the character that thinks with his head and not with his heart. If the narrator was not so young, she could understand that she is being naive about the entire situation and that a relationship with a married man is hopeless. The narrator really believes that she loves Jack and that is why she believes that they will be married in the near future. Although the narrator is in denial and is naive, the truth will come out that she is really not in love.
In the future, the narrator will be writing that Jack decided to have an honest marriage and that he decided that they should move on. The narrator will be crushed, but at the same time, she will grow up and realize that Jack is entirely too old for her. Not only will she realize that he is too old for her, she will probably be writing about a new love that she has found. This is what she will be writing in her first year of her diary and the next few years she will be comparing her relationships with other men to Jack. The narrator will probably write about better men that respect her and that are not married yet. She will then begin to wonder what she ever saw in a person like Jack.
This particular future will happen for them because in the society of today, it is a typical ending for a relationship, such as, Jack and the narrator’s. Personally, I have not dated an older, married man like Jack, but I have friends that have. Usually, the relationship ends in disaster, for example, the wife finds out or the parent of the young person ultimately finds out. This is very devastating for the young and naive person, but they have learned their lesson. If we were to read the narrator’s diary in the future, we will be able to see that Jack was just a minor fling and that she learns her lesson. She...