A broken heart can be mended, but it will no longer be the same.
For you to mend someone's heart, that person must first be willing to undergo the healing process.
If that heart is tightly shut, it's no way you can mend that heart, no matter how good you are at it.
The same principle occurs in Women In Love.
Birkin says that, 'no man cuts another man's throat unless he wants to cut it, and unless the other man wants it cut.'
He went on to say that 'it takes two people to make a murder: a murderer and a murderee.'
A murderee is a man who is murderable.
This in parallel to Gerald and Gudrun's relationship.
Although Gerald tries very hard to pursue Gudrun, it's just a one-sided affair.
Unless Gudrun opens her heart to Gerald, (or to anyone at all), this relationship will not work out.
Gudrun is too self-protective, and defensive.
She would rather give up the one she loves, the good-looking one, for an ugly dwarf.
The reason is simple: she does not want to be manipulated and controlled by the ever-possessive Gerald.
In response to Birkin, here's Gerald's reply:
Sometimes you talk pure nonsense.
Ironic, uh?
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