Analysis of Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "Kiss of the Spider Woman," by Manuel Puig. Specifically, it will analyze two key passages and their contrasting styles, descriptive method, character presentation and a range of other aspects. The two passages chosen are pivotal to the book because they come at a time when the reader needs information, and because one of them fleshes out the characters. The writing style of this novel is choppy and unusual, and both these passages show that. They are different in style, but both move the book along to its inevitable conclusion.
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attached to the characters. And now it's all over, and it's just like they died. -So Valentin, you too have a little bit of a heart. - It has to come out some place ... weakness, I mean. - It's not weakness, listen. - Funny how you can't get along without being attached to something ... It's ... as if the mind had to secrete affection without stopping ... - You think so? - Same way your stomach secretes juices for digestion. - You really think so? - Sure, like a leaky faucet. And those drops continue dripping on anything, they can't be turned off'" (Puig 41).
This is an important passage for a number of reasons. First, it begins to develop the two characters so that they are more understandable to the reader. Second, it begins to develop the friendship and bond that will grow between the two men, and this is an important theme of the book. Molina is a homosexual jailed for corrupting a minor, and Valentin is a political prisoner, jailed for his political beliefs. They ...
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dies for that cause. He is very much like the Spider Woman, who is caught in the web she created and cannot escape. Molina is also caught in a sticky web that will never let him go. Loyalty is so important to the film; Puig also makes it a theme in the Nazi film Molina remembers night after night. The story was a Nazi propaganda film, so it has the French Resistance fail in the end, but the French are loyal to a just cause until the end, and this passages is the basis for the loyalty that will grow between the two men throughout the book. One by one, their barriers break down, and they see each other as human beings, not just labels like revolutionary or homosexual. They ...
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