In the story, "Lust" written by Susan Minot, the conflict in this story is about a girl who does not know what love is really is, and that love is just not all about having sex with a boy. The girl gives into every boy that gives her any attention. The girl knows that once she gives the boy what he wants he will not acknowledge her after that moment. "Their blank looks tells you that the girl they were fucking is not there anymore. You seem to have disappeared"(Minot 339). The story is written in chronologically order because the story is written as a sort of a timeline of the girl's sexual encounters that she has had while at boarding school. The conflict is not resolved in the end because the girl doesn't learn her lesson that she should