In Mark Twain’s "Extracts from the Diaries Adam and Eve", he retells the birth of humanity while weaving the first love story between a man and a woman. It is a path fraught with annoyances, disagreements but one that eventually leads Adam to love Eve, portraying that a critical element of a quality relationship is adjustment and understanding of another person. Adam’s original opinion of his new companion is that, “This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way.” This interloper, this “Eve” is bringing change to a land which Adam had complete dominion over without the inference of another human being. The Garden of Eden (as Adam secretly continues to call it against Eve’s own name for it) was his but now, like any modern couple moving in together and partitioning out their respective spaces, he received a crash course in the art of sharing. It wasn’t until he adjusted to her company that he began to understand how she enriched his life. Perhaps one of the …show more content…
A relationship, such as the one Adam and Eve share, invigorates a person and stave off loneliness. In Eve’s case, she acknowledges that she feels as if her predestined inclinations is to have company and makes friends. Her good life would not be complete if she were isolated from others. Also, hardship is nearly syoymnous with life as no one’s life is without suffering. Interestingly, it isn't until Adam looses everything that he begins to appreciate Eve’s company as well as her oddities that he now regards as attractive quirks. Eve not only makes Adam’s life bearable but gratifying which proves that adjusting one’s life to accommodate the other expresses a level of sacrifice that warms the heart as well as truly understanding a person to see their actions from their perspective. It is though these qualities that Adam is able to say, “Wheresoever she was, THERE was