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As I was reading the book, I have been amused at how Deanna fell for Eddie Bondo that fast. I feel as if she is doing it because she was lonely, not because she really loved him. I started thinking about the choice she made, and what Schwartz, the author of Paradox of Choice would think. I think Schwarts would comment that her seemingly irrational action proves that choice expresses and enables people to get what they really need and want in life. I thought she was constantly being surprised by her feelings. Evidently, fall in love with this supposed enemy would make her feel that her needs are met. As the choice expresses what she really needs in life, so her need for his companionship has overturned her rational and protective barriers of values. The two can be satisfying their animal urges while arguing their personal passion about saving and hunting wildlife, and ignoring their age difference as long as they fit each other physically. Needless to say, as important as the instrumental value of choice may be, such as Deanna’s values in what she does for a living, choice reflects another value that might be even more important, in this case, her primitive need for a man.