"Here We Are" Dorothy Parker" 1931

"Here We Are" by Dorothy Parker is written about a newly married couple hours after their wedding.  It was an entertaining story written for Cosmopolitan.  These characters seem doomed in their marriage before they get to their honeymoon.  The wife is insecure and nervous, and the husband is nervous and constantly says things that the wife considers rude.  In the 1930's it was much more difficult to learn things about your mate before you got married.  This young couple as well as everyone else were held to a set of morales that we often ignore today.  Today it is common to live together and have sex before marriages are planned. In the thirties this would not be allowed.  This couple is thrown into sudden "togetherness."  The young couple are drowning in uncertainty and self-doubt.  I feel marriages in the 30's were often based on lust and they were often bad-decisions that led to much hardship because once you were in it was hard to get out.  This couple was naive and I feel that the 1930's was a naive era.  Today we are surrounded by too much reality, back then people were surrounded by too little.