Experimentally Falling In Love Catron Analysis

Experimentally Falling in Love “Most of us think about love as something that happens to us. We fall. We get crushed,” that is the thinking of Mandy Len Catron in her article, “To Fall in Love With Anyone Do This.” Catron is a very unique writer, being that she gets her point across in a very clear way. In the beginning of the essay she talks about an article she once read, “36 Questions That Lead to Love;” the article is written by psychologist, Arthur Aron, that tries to figure out if love can become more intimate by asking questions and staring at one another. Catron explains the experiment as, “A heterosexual man and woman enter a lab through separate doors. They sit face to face and answer a series of increasingly personal questions. Then they stare silently into each other’s eyes for four minutes.’ The experiment is extremely valid and Catron seemed to want to try the experiment out for herself.

She tells the readers that are engaging in her article that she found herself in a bar with a man, one that she has known most of her life, for several hours. They began asking questions from Aron’s article such as, “Would you like to be famous? In what way?” and When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?” The writer seemed to be very comfortable with the questionnaire part of the night. She compared the spark of intimacy to her early childhood. She says it is completely different meeting new people when one is an adolescent versus a levelheaded adult. The author did not feel uncomfortable until the questions about one another started. When asked questions like, “Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time this time saying things you might not say to someone you’ve just met.’ Those type of questions seemed to really get to the author, and the reader could tell that the situation was getting quite steamed