Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Eva is inside her cat?

As I started to open up the first page of Eva Is Inside her cat by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I was little surprised to find that Eva has problem with her beauty. As I posted on my previous post, many people currently are stressed with diet and other physical properties of themselves, but Eva is stressed about her beauty because she was too beautiful. This weird situation got me focused on the story, and as I read the book, I was keep losing the main theme of the story, but what I think the main theme is after losing her lover, the loneliness struck Eva's soul and made her became somewhat psychotic. After her suicide, she became a ghost, but became ghost made her more lonely, and she wanted to taste the orange that grew from her lover's decaying body. Her eagerness versus cat's natural tendency to chase mice became the major theme after, and she falls into the limbo where she is stuck in and cannot get out.For two thousand years, Eva's inner mind is fighting for the taboo which is eating the orange. I think Marquez was trying to symbolize the Pandora's chest. According to Greece-Rome mythology, Pandora, who received a chest from the Zeus, was in similar situation of opening the chest because Zeus told Pandora not to open it. However, Pandora opened the chest, but in Eva is Inside her cat, Eva gets stuck in a limbo without any final ending which makes the story even more mystery. I enjoyed reading this book, and it was very deep story with complicated themes.

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