Death in Venice: Difference between revisions

* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Tadzio, which is what spurred Aschenbach's attraction to him in the first place.

* [[Longing Look]]: Aschenbach gives ''many'' of these to Tadzio over the course of the book.

* [[Lover and Beloved]]: The relationship between the narrator and the object of his affection. Aschenbach never so much as speaks to Tadzio [[Squick|(thankfully)]], but that doesn't stop him from stalking and gawking at the boy {{spoiler|until his death.}}

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Just seeing Tadzio is enough to completely enrapture Aschenbach.

* [[Love Epiphany]]: According to the narrator, he has something of an artistic awakening upon seeing Tadzio and being awestruck by his youth and beauty.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: ''Oh yeah.'' Ignoring that Aschenbach is relentlessly stalking a 14 year old boy, he's willing to hang around Venice in spite of a deadly cholera outbreak because he can't bear to be apart from him. {{spoiler|Unsurprisingly, it gets him killed.}}

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Downplayed in the sense that the narrator never goes further than stalking the boy he's in love with, but he's still a grown man stalking a ''14 year old boy.''

* [[Stalking Is Love]]: As far as the narrator is concerned, it is.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Aschenbach, who relentlessly follows Tadzio around so he can take in his beauty.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: A one-sided version with Aschenbach, who {{spoiler|dies without having made any sort of contact with Tadzio.}}

* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Tadzio, whose eyes are what Aschenbach considers to be his most attractive feature.