Love is one of the most important parts of life. As soon as a child is born into the world the mother, father and immediate family should be expressing love as much as possible. Love is the best thing to give the child as well as attention. Love is a part of everyone no matter how much is apparent or absorbed. Love plays a very important role in the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Throughout the novel, there is an understanding and acknowledgement of non-existent love between Duddy and his family, the true love between Duddy and Yvette and the inevitable love between Mr. Macpherson and his wife.
             Mr. Macpherson had dreams for his career. He hoped that his work would demonstrate charity and achievement, and that his former students would come back to visit him late in life. When his wife dies, it is very painful for him and hard to overcome the feelings he felt. Macpherson's wife's death is destroying him. He cannot teach and he is a drunk most of the time. It is clear that his dreams now will not come true. When Mr. Macpherson returned to school after the death of his wife, he "strapped fifteen boys that week and his own drinking increased in proportion to the strapping. He began to sit around the house alone. He seldom went out anymore" (pg. 36 part 1 chapter 6). For a man who never strapped a boy before this time and was full of happiness, love and dreams he was now lost in the world. Mr. Macpherson displays that his love for his wife was inevitable and that when a love for something is lost or withdrawn it destroys the spirit within and their dreams to succeed.
             True love is a mature expression of complete sharing between two people and is an emotion and desire to share the same level of commitment and acceptance. This is the genuine love that Duddy really needs to become the man his grandfather sees. Duddy is incapable of mutual love with Yvette. His ambitions consume his being so that his insensitive aggre
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