Relection: To Hell With Dying

In the short story To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker we see a story of first love as the author says at the end of the story. We see how this girl considers herself ugly, let it be by a scar or anything in particular, but Mr. Sweet makes her fell like a princess. When she is with him she is completely happy and she feels that is her duty to revive Mr. Sweet from his death bed even though she is twenty four years old and doing her doctorate she leaves everything to revive him only to him that this time it won’t work. In addition we are witness how the relationship she and Mr. Sweet have on a level of interpersonal. For example when he cuts his hair and when the girl sees him she gets mad since she loves his hair so Mr. Sweet does not cut his hair so she could see him as she likes it. This relationship is the perfect example of a great friendship. They compromise, like on the hair. They also help each other. Mr. Sweet tells her she is beautiful and she believes this since it comes from him even though everybody else tells her she looked like a baby monkey. She helps him by being there and this “revivals”. Without a doubt To Hell with Dying is a story about the power of friendship and true love that we should take into account in to our interpersonal relationships so we can have a bond as great as Mr. Sweet and the girl in the story.