Written on the Body pulls on the heart strings with the story of a person in love with a woman, Louise. The narrator wants to understand the meaning of love. The first sentence of the book is “What is the measure of lost love?” » (Written on the Body, 1) The narrator's desire for the woman Louise is strong and complicated. Wife Louise is married to cancer research specialist Eglin. The narrator, at this time, lives with Jacqueline, a zoo employee who is not sexually interested in the narrator. When Jacqueline discovers that the narrator and Louise are in love; she is enraged. She breaks the appliances in the narrator's apartment and then the narrator's personal effects. Needless to say, Jacqueline moves out and Louise quickly moves in and she is divorced from Eglin. Eglin convinces Louise that she has cancer and that the only way for her to be saved is to stop seeing the narrator and come back to him. Eglin and Louise never remarry, he does not treat her, she is left to her own devices and Eglin moves on with another girlfriend. The narrator, after a failed attempt at love with Gail; they seem to live with each other, discover that it is important to go after what you love and go looking for Louise. The narrator is not happy with Gail. She searched for Eglin, fought him and sent him to the hospital. After searching for several weeks, the narrator returns home to find that Gail has changed things in the house and the narrator feels sad that finding Louise, the greatest effort, is futile. At the last moment, Louise is seen in the kitchen; certainly weakened and visibly ill, but she is there. The end of the book states "I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are dropped in the middle of the paper..... .must do. Why? Why does another human need my help to open the door? I can understand opening a door for a woman pushing a stroller, or just being nice and holding it open for another person, but not on the basis of man or woman I don't think anyone should benefit from it? special treatment based on one's gender Any type of human rights or freedoms should be given to everyone For example, if a woman can lift three hundred pounds in a fire, then she should have every right to become; firefighter and not being considered “manly”. Or, if a man becomes a nurse, why is he considered feminine? I hope that soon our culture will allow more movement and gender roles? will collapse a little to give all those who experience social oppression the freedom they deserve..