Chaos Reading discussion

Somebody from a reading group on Facebook posted a link to 14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature You Can Read in the Time it Takes to Eat Lunch and I thought it might be fun to read them together and discuss here. I'll post a separate topic for each one and people can jump in if and when they're inspired. (The link below will take you to the story for this thread.)
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Pygmalion by John Updike

Did you like the story, Cheryl?

Made me think about how we tend to want love to be unique and yet having fallen in love more than once find ourselves using similar expressions and gestures, or identifying with the same romantic songs. In Updike's story, Pygmalion kind of takes this to the extreme and wants his new wife to adopt the same mannerisms of his old wife recreating the very dynamics which bored him in his first marriage. Didn't feel like we were left with much more than a cycle destined to repeat itself. Kind of a lot to get across in such a short space!

Cheryl wrote: "Not very fair on the new wife, is it?"

That's putting it mildly!!!! Selfishness seems to be at the heart of this story.