• Alan Austen, a young man who is passionately in love with Diana who is indifferent to him, comes to the room of a mysterious old man who deals in magic potions. Alan Austen has been told that he can buy a kind of love potion that will make the object of his affection fall madly in love with him. The old man shows litter interest in the financial profit to be gained from selling Alan a love potion which is only priced at one dollar.
,do remember keep conscious and be yourself when in love!
• Part1:Para 1 In this part, severs as an introduction to the protagonist([ prəu'tægənist]主人翁), Alan Austen.
• Part2:Para. 2-12: The old man is trying to sell his mixture.
• Instead, he devotes most his sales talk to recommending a potion that he calls a life-cleaner, a powerful poison that is undetectable in an autopsy, but more expensive than love potion. He believes that his clients will visit him repeatedly to buy expensive mixtures once they start to get one kind of potion from him. Finally, Alan Austen is convinced that the love potion can bring him deep love and takes short story, which combines elements of horror and love, is built almost entirely through dialogue between a young man, Alan Austen, who is deeply in love and wants to possess his lover entirely, and an unnamed old man who believes in a life free of romantic involvement. As the dialogue develops, Austen’s attitude towards the potion changes from skeptical and hesitant to excited and overwhelmed. Readers have been kept in suspense of what will happen to the young man when the story comes to the last line “Au revoir”.