The Lesbian Bride's Handbook

Stress is often an inevitable outcome of life's activities, whether it is related to a situation, a person, or an event. Ariel Levy wrote her memoir, The Lesbian Bride’s Handbook, to a universal audience since everyone can relate to feeling stressed. Levy recollected on the pressure of recently planning her wedding; she was constantly worrying about what friends, family and society would think of, what she called, her “party about love.” Levy used this title as a denotation of wedding and a general term of endearment, but also as a way to avoid the perception that she and fiancé, Amy, were posing as a normal couple with a normal wedding. This problem was one of the multiple complications Levy perceived, but the one she focused on was the importance of her wedding dress. Levy introduced this importance with descriptive imagery and creative metaphors to describe the different dress choices and their faults. She concentrated on the dress because she again wanted to avoid the perception of a normal wedding, but she also wanted the dress to stun Amy’s mother and the rest of the guests. Levy then wrote the story in hindsight after the wedding occurred. She explains that it went splendidly: the band, the flowers and the dress were all beautiful, and Amy’s mother was in awe. At the end of it all, Levy perfectly summed up the theme of the story with a rhetorical question: “who could feel okay about keeping something so expensive hanging in a garment bag? Amy I’m keeping” (140). The object that created the most stress for Levy turned out to be so unimportant that she would eventually sell it. After having a sort of epiphany, Levy realizes what she should have focused on: the person that matters the most, Amy. The Lesbian Bride’s Handbook impeccably enlightens the reader to focus his or her time and efforts on what is truly important rather than material ideas. And in that way, the stress will be worthwhile.

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