" (103) The groom's efforts to win the heart of the bride borders on pathetic. For example, when the bride asks or money for a phone card so she can make her calls privately he gives her ten times more than enough money to do this. She claims the amount is not sufficient and refuses to take it. When he refuses to give her more she takes his office and car keys and ultimately he has to call the police to get them back. To add insult to injury she tells him of her many boyfriends back home, that she was not a virgin when they met, and the only reason she came here was to show herself to him and now that he has seen her she wants him to buy her a ticket home. And he does. She tells him that because she won't be receiving any more money from him she will have to become a prostitute in order to survive when she gets home. Even after all she's done to him he worries that she...

The reader can see from the beginning that the relationship is doomed because both parties have very different agendas. The groom's motives are not entirely pure since he is trying to buy love, and expects to arrange this outcome as one would a business deal. He is truly baffled that the deal falls through. The bride takes advantage of his naivete, milking him for money while simultaneously humiliating him. She had no intensions of honoring their agreement from the outset and plays him for a sucker. Both characters are flawed and neither is particularly endearing. The entire scene is edgy and painful to witness.
Works Cited

Isong, Nathaniel Johnson. Who Knows the Unpredictable Bride. West Conshoshocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2009.