Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Vegetational Fatherhood

This story was extremely interesting to try to interpret.  We start off with a woman lying in a field, and a rose looking at her seductively.  The woman then falls asleep, while the rose moves closer.  After this point, it is mostly up to interpretation over whether the rose did anything, transformed into anything, or was even there. This interpretation can be added onto with the sudden pregnancy of the woman.  From here, we go on with a natural story.  Until the daughter that the woman had begins to transform into a rose, transformation being an element seen in many fairy tales.  This is where this story begins to take on an element of fairy tales.  The rest of the story is exceedingly un-magical, with the exception of the daughter turning into a rose, but this has come to be ordinary to the reader.  

I found there to be no direct interpretation of this story.  It seems to be a fairy tale, but only through limited elements such as transformation.  Everything else was very straight-forward story like. 

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