metamorphosis book 1-3

within the story of echo and narcissus echo is only able to repeat the last word of every sentence because jupiter sentenced her to do that. she then saw narcissus in the forrest and immediately fell in love. she stealthily followed his steps. she then hopes that he speaks so she can "form her own words". when he does speak all Echo can do is repeat everything he says. he tells her to come out. she finally came out and embraced narcissus and he rejects her. Narcissus stumbles upon a spring to which he is attracted to the reflection of his own form. he sees his own figure and thinks it to be an actual person. Narcissus could not love Echo because he fell in love with his own reflection. he only had love for himself. and because he was so vain it leads to his death. Every time Narcissus tries to touch "him" he puts his hand in the water and disturbs the image. this might be suggesting the idea of human desire. due tot he fact that people say in order to love someone else you must love yourself first. so maybe narcissus had to love himself before he ever loved echo. This clearly didnt end up happening because this was Narcissus demise as he died and was turned into a flower.