It’s time once more for another installment in my series using only Spider-Man comics to explore the variety of romantic archetypes we find in literature (illustrating the variety of romantic experiences we find in life)! The last piece in this series examined the high school crush, paying special attention to all those crushes we carry deep in our heart and never voice. This piece looks at unrequited love beyond high school pining. While it can be present in high school, particularly as we get older there can be a heavier side to the unrequited lover. Living with a love unvoiced wraps one of the most important parts of our being in a very lonely shell. Jean DeWolff, in addition to being part of one of the most famous stories in the first twenty-five years of Spider-Man’s comic history, illustrates this painful reality in a particularly poignant way.
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