The narrator opens his mind and interpretation when he starts to describe Swann’s love story. The narrator puts his own point of view to the side and opens it to a thrid person point of view, as a reader, this allows me to see in ideas and feelings of Swann. When the narrator begins to describe the way Odettes and Swanns love affair began, it reminded me of the way my love affair began two years ago, well before it ended. Similar to Swann, I was invited over to a ‘friends’ family home for their famous weekly dinner. The families daughter played piano every week and her brother would play the guitar. While I would socialize and be kind I could not help but notice the mothers liking to me and her sons constant gaze in my direction. I learned that her son had taken a liking to me for about two years, his name was Martin. I believe people fall in love in misterious ways and this was one of the most misterious ways I could think of. As the night went on, I talked to Martin and his family, I did not take an immediate liking to him, but there was something about him that drew in my attention, enough to accept his invitation to come back for next weeks dinner. As the weeks turned into months, Martin would play the guitar for me and convince me on why Jimmy Hendrix was so much better than Jim Morrison. It was about three months of weekly dinners and seeing each other at school until he asked me to dinner, but with only him and I. I went to dinner with Martin and finally saw what it was about him that I loved, he was different, he saw the world in such a different way than most people that it amazed me. Similar to Swann and Odette, time was really our only friend. We took time to get to know each other; however, one of the hardest things to go past for our families was our “class difference”. My father was a doctor while Martins’ father was a mechanic. My mother was an accountant while his was a preschool teacher, none of this mattered to me but it mattered to my parents. With Swann being in the higher class and pretending to not be, I understand why he protrayed that persona. As our relationship went on I fell in love with Martin and who he was, everything about him was so new and amazing, I was blinded, I never noticed our differnce in class or race, but my mother and father did. They would constantly tell me I did not belong with someone “like that”, I would cry and tell them they were oblivious to the obvious and only saw what they wanted to see. Time went on and I fell more in love everyday, that was until things started to change. I have not read far enough into Swann’s love story to know if the relationship between Odette and Swann changed but the relationship between Martin and I did. Martin started to become a different and harsher person, he was not the man I fell in love with but I still stayed with him, until about three months ago. When I moved to Washington my eyes finally opened to the relm of posibilities and chances Washington offered, what the world offered. I broke up with Martin and told myself that if it was meant to be then our paths would cross again. I still love Martin very much but I know I did the right thing for the both of us. I still think about him and our memories, similar to Swann, I will never forget the way it felt to fall in love.