Over the summer I read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and discovered a few prominent sacrifices and offerings in the relationships between characters.
The main female character in the story, Lady Brett Ashley, is the center of both relationships that apply to this BIG QUESTION. Another character, Robert Cohn, falls desperately in love with her and though she enjoys his attention for a bit, she quickly grows tired of him and moves on while he tirelessly tries to rekindle what they had. She falls in love with a famous bull fighter named Pedro Romero and enjoys rubbing this in Cohn's face. Cohn's love for Brett is a sacrifice, as he is unhappy with it and it is not requited, while Brett's love for Romero is more to the offering side because she enjoys it and he loves her in return.
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