The short story “Lust” by Susan Minot details the life of a high school girl who succumbed to the pressure of her surroundings. Sexual pressure from her peers and all the boys she met led to the multiple sexual encounters that make up this story. This realistic view of teenagers in the early 1970s shows the highs and lows of the 1960s sex movement. In “Lust,” Susan Minot shows the reality of a teenager's life during her high school years and the problems her actions create for her as she ages. Janet M. Ellerby analyzes “Lust” in her essay titled “Lust.” In this essay, Ellerby examines and provides a brief but accurate summary of the tale. He then gives his interpretations of what this story was supposed to mean. Finally, he talks about the techniques Susan Minot used to achieve the atmosphere and emotions she wanted the reader to experience. I agree with Ellerby's take on this story and it will be evident in this article. Since I agree with what this essay had to say, I will be able to use it as evidence to support my ideas. The setting of this story took place in a time when sex was becoming more and more publicized and less and less taboo. The 1960s and early 1970s are commonly associated with things like the hippie movement and the free love movement. These two came together and created a revolution of young people doing drugs and having casual, meaningless sex without any kind of consequences. In the story, the narrator experiences both of these countercultures. Her "lovers" are random men from her school or just people she happened to meet and decide to befriend. Some of these encounters were the result of some sort of drug use. This is just further away...middle of the paper...perfect. No matter where love is involved or not, the two people will engage in some sort of emotion whether they want to or not. The narrator shows this throughout the story. At first everything was happy and she seemed proud to sleep with all different guys. However, as her high school life progressed, she began to show remorse in almost every encounter she had, even the one boy she actually had feelings for ended up feeling shameful. He left after that and so she just sat there waiting for him to come back (Minot 102). No matter how much the two parties involved want there to be no strings attached and just a simple connection, someone will become emotionally attached. In the period of this story, the one who was emotionally captured was usually the woman and the narrator of “Lust” shows this almost flawlessly.