Paul,love and relationships in Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy

What does Paul learn about love from his various relationships in the novel?

In the ‘rites of passage’ narrative Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy, Paul learns about ‘love in all its forms’. Through his relationships with his parents, his girlfriend then wife Rosie and his piano teacher ‘maestro’ Edward Keller, Paul learns what love is. During his life journey because of his relationships, he learns how to give love, receive love and how love and all of its attachments shape lives.

One of the ways Paul learns ‘about love in all its forms’ is through his relationships with his parents and their relationship with each other. Paul’s parents, Nancy and John, shared a common thread of music but that was where there similarities ended ‘apart from music they had little in common.’ Paul’s parents were like chalk and cheese, ‘and yet how happy they always seemed, in spite, or perhaps because of it.’ Paul’s parents loved him uncondition

Rosie Paul’s girlfriend-cum-wife was the other main character that Paul learnt about love from. Rosie was everything that Paul needed in a relationship, she loved him just as he was she did not want anything from Paul other then love in return. In contrast, Paul’s first crush the girl who he had his first wet dream over a girl named Megan was the girl that Paul wanted at first but because of her selfishness and arrogant nature and the willingness of Rosie to give everything, he was able to learn the difference between lust and love. Rosie gave Paul sexual and mental fulfilment, much more than anything Megan was able to offer. Paul learnt through his relationship with Rosie how to totally love in return. No matter what was going on in his life he returned ‘to the woman and child he loved, within the confines of the life he hated.’

Paul had many relationships throughout his life. he learned a considerable amount about love through them, especially from his parents, Maestro and Rosie. His life was gre

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