Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story (1970), a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit.
"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?"
Yeah, indeed...what can you say about a young, beautiful, smart girl who died, and a timeless beautiful love story that just ended. Written by Erich Segal in 1970, the story shows how falling in love was not so easy back than, considering their religion and mostly their social class. Oliver comes from one of the wealthiest and most inflectional families in the country. Meanwhile, Jenny - an Italian/American, worked in a library. Having a very successful father, Oliver was always in pressure of his father's achievements, I think he kinda felt threatened by his father, so he was always competitive. The love story starts in the library were they met, later they have a coffee at one point she goes to whatch a hokey game where Oliver was playing, of course he plays hokey, he's a wealthy Harvard jock. Meanwhile she's a a musician who like Mozart, Bach and Beatles...and Oliver.
They were desperatly in love, and at one point he takes her home to meet his parents. She freaks out when she sees his pallace-looking house. What I see as strange here is the way how he talks to his dad, addressing him as sir...the author describes this best how relationships between wealthy people get cold, when they have too much in their agenda, and no time for love and affection.
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