Oliver Barrett IV originates from an American high society east drift family and is beneficiary to the Barrett fortune. He goes to Harvard University, where he is extremely dynamic in ice hockey. At the library, Oliver meets Jennifer "Jenny" Cavalleri, a clever, common laborers Radcliffe College understudy of established music. She ridicules him, calling him "preppy" and "muscle head". Oliver discovers appeal and truth in her remarks. They rapidly begin to look all starry eyed at, in spite of their disparities.
Jenny uncovers her arrangements for the future, which incorporate concentrating on in Paris. Oliver is vexed that he doesn't figure in those arrangements. He needs to wed Jenny and proposes. After she acknowledges, she is headed to the Barrett chateau to meet the old gatekeeper folks. Oliver consoles her that their class contrasts won't make any difference. Be that as it may, his guardians are unmistakably not awed and are judgmental.
Later, at the Harvard club Oliver's dad lets him know that he will cut him off monetarily on the off chance that he weds Jenny. Oliver storms out of the eating corridor. Upon graduation from school, the two understudies choose to wed against the desires of Oliver's dad, who disjoins ties with his child. The wedding is present day and contains no religious category. Jenny's widowed father goes to, in spite of the fact that he additionally has worries about their social contrasts.
Without his dad's money related backing, the couple battle to pay Oliver's way through Harvard Law School. Jenny gets function as a tuition based school educator. They lease the top floor of a triple decker close to the Law School. Oliver graduates third in his class, winning $500, and takes a position at a respectable New York law office. They in the end move into a custodian building, which stands out extraordinarily from their Cambridge burrows. The 24-year-olds are prepared to begin a family, however when they neglect to imagine they counsel a therapeutic expert. After numerous tests, Oliver is educated that Jenny is in critical condition. Her precise condition is never expressed unequivocally, however she seems to have leukemia (affirmed by Oliver in the spin-off "Oliver's Story").
As trained by his specialist, Oliver endeavors to carry on with an "ordinary life" without telling Jenny of her condition, however she discovers in the wake of going up against her specialist about her late ailment. Oliver purchases tickets to Paris however she decays, needing just time with him. Not long after she starts unreasonable tumor treatment, Oliver is sufficiently frantic over the mounting costs to look for monetary alleviation from his dad. The senior Barrett solicits what the cash demand from $5,000 is for, however Oliver will just say that it's "close to home". His dad inquires as to whether he's "gotten a young lady in a bad position," and Oliver stands quiet, permitting him to trust more regrettable potential outcomes; he composes the check at any rate.
From her healing center bed, Jenny makes memorial service courses of action with her dad, then requests Oliver. She instructs him to not point the finger at himself, demanding that he never held her again from music and it was justified, despite all the trouble for the love they shared. Jenny's last wish is made when she requests that he grasp her firmly before she kicks the bucket. As a distress stricken Oliver leaves the healing facility, his dad goes up against him outside, having hurried to New York City from Massachusetts when he heard the news. Oliver gruffly tells his dad that Jenny is dead. He strolls back alone to the outside ice arena, where Jenny had watched him skate the day she was hospitalized.