With a novel like “Fifty Shades of Grey”, the author E.L. James has not only brought out BDSM and other sexual acts out from the closet. The novel can be called the romance of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, but it is probably the one of its kind romance novel where sexual practices like bondage, discipline, submission, masochism etc. are brought out into the fore. The romance between Ana and Christians what forms the core of the novel. But the seemingly perfect romance between this college graduate and the intimidating businessman takes a turn when he resorts to the above mentioned sexual practices.
The harmless romance takes a turn for the murky when the docile college student, Anastasia Steele and the 27 year old business magnate turn to ropes and masks and whips and spanking to derive sexual pleasure. Their romance begins out of the blue when Kate, Ana’s friend is suddenly left indisposed and she has to fill in for Kate and take Grey’s interview for the college newspaper. Though the interview does not quite go as planned, she is left with an indelible impression of Grey. Later when he visits the hardware shop where she works, they end up exchanging phone numbers and also fix a photo shoot for the newspaper article.
Over coffee they both begin discussing their families and their relationship statuses, and they both come to know that they are single. The character of Christian Grey is not the run of the mill kind of a romantic guy, and that is made evident to the character of Anastasia Steele, many times in the novel. Though Grey shows signs of sensitivity, starting with pulling Anastasia out of the way of a rushing cyclist, yet for the most part of the novel he remains as grey as his surname. The sensitivity is reinforced when he sends her a copy of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, which is a first edition. And when he comes to pick up a very drunk Anastasia, after she ends up dialling him in a drunken state also makes Christian Grey a true romantic hero.
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