ABSTRACT
All four elements (Meet, Crack, Why You?, Obstacle) are necessary, but sometimes they come in different orders. In You've Got Mail, Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) is on an afternoon outing with two kids. After tiring of the street fair, they drag Joe into the children's book store owned by Kathleen Kelly. Her life's work is running the little children's book shop her mother started, The Shop Around the Corner. As Joe Fox's book superstore cracked open Kathleen Kelly's world, he fell in love with her, though she has no idea. Sometimes the wound is not physical, but it is no less painful. Kathleen has had several cracks over the course of the story which have stolen Joe's heart. A side note about Mail, people do not fall in love on the internet or by writing letters. They can flirt and banter, get excited, titillated, and infatuated, but real love only happens between two human beings coming together.
