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2* For most of the film, Jeff keeps trying to keep Lisa, whom he does genuinely love at arm's length. [[ItsNotYouItsMe Constantly worrying that their two lifestyles are too different for their relationship to work]]. Fortunately, they do manage to make things work by the end of the film.
3* Watching the poor struggling songwriter can be painful to anyone who works in the arts and has been in a similar position. His coming home [[DrowningHisSorrows drunk]] one night, only to scatter his sheet music off his piano in frustration is a particularly heartbreaking moment.
4* After the dog gets killed, his owner [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rants to the other tenants about how even though they don't seem to care for each other, she still can't believe any of them would strangle "[t]he only thing in this whole neighborhood who liked anybody."]]
5--> "WHICH ONE OF YOU DID IT?! WHICH ONE OF YOU KILLED MY DOG?!"
6* The plight of "Miss Lonelyhearts." Luckily, things are looking up for her at the end, but until then, what we see of her life is pretty depressing.

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