Maureen Daly’s Seventeenth Summer has one major reoccurring theme of love and sex shown throughout the novel in many different scenes. Considering Seventeenth Summer was written in the 1940s, this theme of love and sex was quite risqué and controversial for its time.
Maureen Daly has the main character, Angie, experience love for the first time as a teenager and discusses her first-hand experience with love and sex within the teenage mind.
Throughout the noel, Maureen Daly implies love is a big deal that one should be careful getting in to and only talks of the cute side of love. She only talks of love lightly and in the little things. She never really discusses the true meaning of love, rather portrays the innocent side of it. At one point