A Memorable Way of Putting Something

"His beauty had startled her, until she'd met both parents -- Vietnamese mother, Polish father -- and then he'd seemed like the solution to something."

That sentence jumped out and stuck with me as I was reading "Buttony," a story in the March 7, 2016 New Yorker  by Fiona McFarlane. It's about the dangers of an addiction to beauty and it reads like a fable even though the characters are humans as opposed to animals.