How To: Talking to a Hunter

This short story reminded me of the movie “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” Kate Hudson is a young gossip columnist who writes How To’s for the magazine that employs her, and she puts herself in a relationship doomed to failure by her secret motives. Although the story likes are very different, they share some of the same aspects and ideas. This short story is a similar and quite familiar description of how to deal with a “hunter” more commonly known as a player or a man who sleeps around. It includes the best male friend and the best female friend who give advice on how to woman can avoid being left heartbroken and can steer clear of the whole destructive relationship in the first place. The friends only want to help the protagonist be happy and make sure she knows what she is getting into.
It then struck me that this short story seems awfully familiar. This sort of relationship happens to many people and can be generalized as any woman who seeks a relationship with a man who has no sense on monogamy. The nameless main character stands to be every woman who enters into a relationship with any man who does not comprehend the concept of commitment. He gives her a key, which at first sight seems like he is trying to show some sense of tying himself to her, but at a second glace, a key can be copied a hundred times. A hundred keys for a hundred different women. The key seems less significant and more an easier way for his to gain access to the women. The story overall, ends up as a detailed How To avoid being “played” and How To read a person by their actions not only their words.