Love in the narrative context: The relationship between Henry Murray and Christiana Morgan.
Scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made. This chapter is a contrast of parallel biographies, one of Henry Murray, the other of Christiana Morgan—two people in a complex relationship with one another—and my aim is to analyze the ways in which this relationship has been narrated (and thereby constructed) by the biographers. When relationships structure or center a life, they become supremely difficult to narrate, in part because shaping a narrative that appropriately balances and contains the complexities of meanings both within the relationship and within the larger social context becomes a monumental challenge. The "story" can be told many ways; the relationship can be seen kaleidoscopically: It shifts its shape, its texture, its colors as the narrative contexts change. I raise the issu