"At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Libson girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling."
The cats act as a metaphor for the Libson girls. Like the cats the Libson girls make love and fight and cry in attempt to deal with the world filled with emotion. For anyone who truly understands the emotions of the world to the full extent it can be too overwhelming to handle. The range of different emotions that the girls must attempt to understand is shown through the violent imagery of being "flung back and forth" The images of the cats suffering and joy takes place in the dark demonstrating how the world can appear so looming and unbearable. The trees are personified as being able to feel to represent the way all earths creatures play off of each other the people feel the pain of the animals and the Libson girls cary the wait of there pain and emotions around with them giving some of this feeling off to their surroundings. This emotion being passed can also describe the closeness of the girls to each other and explain why they internally suffered so much from the loss of their sister. Even before cecilia was gone she had the ability to give off her emotion to the closest people to her which were her sisters so with Cecilia they endured the weight of the world.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Virgin Suicides part 2
He came back to us with stories of bedrooms filled with crumpled panties, of stuffed animals hugged to death by the passion of the girls, of a crucifix draped with a brassiere, of gauzy chambers of canopied beds, and of the effluvia of so many young girls becoming women together in the same cramped space.
On the surface this passage seams to be a normal carefree story of growing up. And all of the items described found in the Libson house seem to fulfill all of the fantasies a young boy could have about the rooms of young women. However violent hyperboles, "hugged to death," and anti religious imagery create dark undertones. The image of a bra which symbolizes the growth from girl to woman lying on top of the crucifix which is a symbol of the girls religion shows that the desire of all of these girls to achieve womanhood is outranking there religious beliefs and priorities. Describing where the girls live as a "cramped space" is foreshadowing and implies that they will outgrow their surroundings.
On the surface this passage seams to be a normal carefree story of growing up. And all of the items described found in the Libson house seem to fulfill all of the fantasies a young boy could have about the rooms of young women. However violent hyperboles, "hugged to death," and anti religious imagery create dark undertones. The image of a bra which symbolizes the growth from girl to woman lying on top of the crucifix which is a symbol of the girls religion shows that the desire of all of these girls to achieve womanhood is outranking there religious beliefs and priorities. Describing where the girls live as a "cramped space" is foreshadowing and implies that they will outgrow their surroundings.
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