Love is Hard to Find in L.A.
After reading Love in LA and A Food Man is Hard to Find, it becomes clear at first that the stories are very different, though, with a deeper look you can start to see a few subtle similarities. Love in LA tells the story of a young man named Jake, who ironically only seems to love himself. Jake has a very brief encounter with a woman named Marina after the two have a fender-bender while navigating through LA traffic. A Good Man is Hard to Find tells the story of a family that is going on vacation which goes horribly awry after what seems to be a major accident, and the ironic run-in with the worst man possible known as “The Misfit”.
Characters and Their Morals
In “Love in LA”, every step of the way it seems that Jake’s decisions were all selfish and inconsiderate. From giving fake information after the accident to claiming to have “been in a few movies” in hopes of getting a phone number, it is apparent that Jake’s outlook on life is heavily revolved around his own well-being without the consideration of others. We are given very little information about Marina’s point of view on things. She is portrayed as innocent and even considerate when she talks about her dad being disappointed if she didn’t report the accident. Her final words make her seem almost gullible for falling for Jake’s charm when she says “call me” before departing.
In “A good Man is Hard to Find” the main character is the grandmother of the family. In the first page of the story she can be seeing trying to manipulate the family into going to her choice of vacation by using newspaper article about The Misfit saying, “You don’t even want to hear the things he has done” which leads me to believe that like Jake In “Love in LA”, she is also a little selfish. The children and the baby, filled the roles of children perfectly, with no filter for politeness and doing