Who is The Lover from Eros the Bittersweet and what is their importance? Eros_the_Bittersweet English & Literature The Lover | Eros the Bittersweet

The primary character in Eros: The Bittersweet is the archetypal lover. While not a real person, the lover is supposed to represent the person who is beginning to fall in love and the one who pursues love until it is inevitably lost. Carson argues that, following the Greek poets and philosophers, the lover has a number of surprising properties. First, Eros changes the lover into a different person, not only because of emotional changes and a new obsessiveness with a single object but because the lover gives a part of herself to the loved and then strives to get it back.