Monday, January 10, 2011
Progressively Fantastical Progressively
I have to say that this is the kind of story I had in my mind as the describing nature of magical realism. It fits so well within the descriptive nature of Allende's writing I think the story would be banal without it. From Rosa's, "green hair and yellow eyes," (28) to Clara's eccentric abilities to interpret dreams, move furniture with her mind and her extreme apathy to the magnificence when it is around her--except barrabas' split corpse as an area rug (97) it all moves the story along at a page-turning pace. Even the horrible escapades of Esteban in Tres Marias were written with an air of profundity that ties the truly fantastical together. I am intrigued and excited to continue onto the next part of the story. I am sad that Clara seems like she may never be able to feel love and they may get her into trouble with Esteban later in the story. I was happy to see Esteban settle down and fall in love with Clara and not treat her like Pancha Garcier and his other baby mamma's. I am not exactly sure how Ferula will come to be a part of the Trueba house. Will she replace Nana totally? She is already bathing an adult Clara in jasmine and basil water. I need a Nana or Ferula.
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Yeah, I was thinking about the relationship between Ferula and Clara as well. Like you say, there's the whole bathing in Jasmine water between adult women. But, sadly, so far it seems that whatever love/obsession Ferula may feel for Clara, the feeling is not, as it were, mutual.
ReplyDeleteTrue. It almost seems as if Clara is incapable of love. In the humanly way. She lives in an ethereal world that, I think, keeps her at arms length from love. I am surprised at how much she seems to enjoy love making with Esteban. There must be a reason for it and for the distraction from her spirits and self during the dancing with Esteban at the ring swapping ceremony...
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