Love is invariable; not just the god, but also the emotion itself. There are similarities between Carver's short story and Plato's work, where not all relationships were the same. Through love also existing in different forms, it supports both homosexual and heterosexual relationships found in Plato's work. Another form of love is found in Greek mythology, expressed by Aristophanes, where the idea of ​​soul mates arises from these two beings who possessed two sets of body parts connected together, constituting a variation of mixtures between the three sexes. The two people started as one, but their power was too strong and the gods had to separate them, hence the idea of ​​looking for the other half (Plato 25-28). There are older men pursuing younger men, as was discussed at this symposium, where the older man would act as a mentor or guide to the other. They were discouraged from showing the signs of pleasure they might feel from the less experienced partner. These same-sex relationships were viewed with more respect because women were seen as mentally inferior to men, so if men desired other men, it meant their relationships were countered by an intelligent partner. Pausanias believed in two types of love; celestial, meaning physical and mental attraction, and common. Heavenly love is linked to not having relationships with younger boys who are "younger than the age at which intelligence begins to be formed" (Plato 14), while common love was considered as a negative form because he was someone “who