What do you think of Helen and Frank s relationship?

This subtle affection seems to me more to be more of a deep friendship, based on their love of books, and although Helen's humor is different from Frank's gentleman, the spiritual proximity of the two is attached to the letters, which makes the relationship even stronger. And this relationship has gone through the test of 20 years, which shows that it is particularly precious.

I like Helen very much, I like her American humor and straightforwardness, and I admire her deep love for books and her loyalty to reading and writing. And this book, which records the letters of Helen and Frank for 20 years, makes us see and learn more about Helen's attitude towards books and reading, the pursuit of classics and bold criticism. However, the reading culture in today's society is just blindly pursuing bestsellers or fragments.

How many strange pen pals or netizens can still have simple thoughts after in-depth communication across different time and space, and do not want to meet this strange friend, and then judge whether it is necessary to continue to communicate according to the appearance of this friend. Helen is such a simple, she has always regarded Frank as a friend in another time and space, and if letters can satisfy their communication, there is no other doubt and no need to meet. If it must be said that her grief after receiving the news of Frank's death shows that she loves Frank and regrets not meeting him, it can only be said that she really loves this friend who can be so in tune with her spirit and complements her, but if time allows them to correspond for another twenty years, Helen may not have made the decision to meet Frank.

Helen and Frank never met, and that didn't affect their twenty-year spiritual exchange. This is also the second thing I admire about Helen. It can be seen from the letter that Frank actually wants to meet Helen, but it can also be understood that he simply wants to meet this kind pen pal and fulfill a wish.

But from Helen's letters, I don't see a strong desire to see Frank.

There is no such thing as love. The person who wrote the prologue is a fool. The friendship between the two protagonists in this book actually has two main components:

One is that they have similar interests, and the other is that they both have virtues, it's as simple as that. The heroine is a lonely person in the United States, not only lacking relatives and friends, but also quite lonely spiritually, otherwise she would not have thought of mailing old books to a strange bookstore across the ocean. And she is a person who is really obsessed with books, and she has mailed food and daily necessities to people in bookstores many times, but she still sighs:

The food sent by the mail will be eaten up before the Chinese New Year, but the books they send will stay with me for the rest of my life, so I always feel indebted. "Obviously it's an obsession with a hobby.

I flipped through the four prefaces, and I didn't see that the prefaces clearly considered the relationship between Helen and Frank to be a point of love. The preface describes to me a delicate feeling, especially if it is not possible. The movies mentioned in it are just to make the plot content more attractive than love.

After reading this book and reading their letters spanning 20 years, I sincerely agree that they have spiritual love, and they have a high sense of identity and attachment to each other, but I don't think this is the kind of love that lovers have.

Nora's sometimes jealousy, as the letter suggests, is that she can communicate with her husband so closely, has a similar sense of humor and a brilliant writing as him, and as a wife, of course, she is jealous. It's not about love.

In the movie "84 Charing Cross Street", Frank doesn't go to Helen because the two are out of love.

The film tells the story of Helen Hanff, a New York writer who loves to read old books, and Frank, the director of a British bookstore, who have been ordering and buying books for decades, as well as the exchange of hearts and emotions through letters.

In January 1969, American writer Helen Hanff (Anne Bank's Hopirovt) finally fulfilled her 20-year-old wish: to fly to the British town of Lushanshen, where she went to 84 Charing Cross Street in London. Living in New York, Helen is a lover of English literature, but 20 years ago, as a young woman, she had limited income and could not afford to buy a large number of books, so she had to read a few classics to satisfy her intellectual curiosity.

By chance, she found an advertisement in a British second-hand bookstore in a magazine with books she had traveled to all corners of New York that she had not found. So she managed to get in touch with Frank, the bookstore's rough owner, and kept the correspondence going.