Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
All right, chickies, let's put on our thinking caps! Why is this the first story in the collection? Is it an easier, more accesible story than the others like "The Faery Handbag" in Magic for Beginners? Personally, I don't think so. The narrator is vague; the only thing the reader knows is that he is a dead man who is trying to remember his wife. Instead of her name, he can only remember the sex and the fact that he wants more, even in death. Is the fact that he is a horndog in the afterlife indicative of the male tendency towards visceral hedonism?
Another thing to ponder: do the various female names hold any significance for you? Do you recognize any cultural references (besides Beatrice and Jezabel) or the names of personal relations that perhaps influenced your particular reading of the story?
Another thing to ponder: do the various female names hold any significance for you? Do you recognize any cultural references (besides Beatrice and Jezabel) or the names of personal relations that perhaps influenced your particular reading of the story?
posted by Anonymous at 2:11 PM
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I got the notion (after he mentions cheating on his wife with a grd student) that perhaps these are the names of all the people he's cheated on his wife with. After their last bout of sex and he leaves she "said the names staccato, one after the other, like stabs." Maybe she's figured out all his affairs?
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