efface unfortunate realities as far as possible and to evoke the shades of fortunate realities which have not been achieved While the fiction is a subtle instrument of juridical technique, it is also clearly the expression of a desire inherent in human nature the desire to efface unpleasant realities and evoke imaginary good fortune. 37 So, at least in part, we want to believe that the law is clear and predictable, and we categorize the law to prove it and to bury the uncomfortable reality that the law is neither of those things. To take a specific example, we say(and try to believe)that, in order to facilitate private arrangements, contract law enforces people's actual bargains, grants expectancy damages, and ignores the reasons for breach. 38 The reality however, is quite different.These precepts of contract law are heavily modified by exceptions, qualifications, and contradictions Contract law enforces a reasonable person's interpretation of the parties' bargain, rarely if ever puts the injured party in as good a position as if there had been no breach, and is heavily influenced by the reasons for breach. Our resistance to contract laws complexity nurtures our ion that contract law succeeds at its goals better than it really does 37 Id (quoting Pierre De Tourtoulon, Philosophy in the Development of Law 386( Martha Mc. Read trans., 1922) Hillman, Contract Lore, supra note 34, at 506-51210 efface unfortunate realities as far as possible and to evoke the shades of fortunate realities which have not been achieved . . . . While the fiction is a subtle instrument of juridical technique, it is also clearly the expression of a desire inherent in human nature, the desire to efface unpleasant realities and evoke imaginary good fortune.37 So, at least in part, we want to believe that the law is clear and predictable, and we categorize the law to prove it and to bury the uncomfortable reality that the law is neither of those things. To take a specific example, we say (and try to believe) that, in order to facilitate private arrangements, contract law enforces people’s actual bargains, grants expectancy damages, and ignores the reasons for breach.38 The reality, however, is quite different. These precepts of contract law are heavily modified by exceptions, qualifications, and contradictions. Contract law enforces a reasonable person’s interpretation of the parties’ bargain, rarely if ever puts the injured party in as good a position as if there had been no breach, and is heavily influenced by the reasons for breach.39 Our resistance to contract law’s complexity nurtures our vision that contract law succeeds at its goals better than it really does. 37 Id. (quoting Pierre De Tourtoulon, Philosophy in the Development of Law 386 (Martha Mc. Read trans., 1922)). 38 Hillman, Contract Lore, supra note 34 , at 506-512. 39 Id