Does the ending depict Rodrigo S.M.’s loss of himself after Macabéa’s death? Does this show how Rodrigo is unable to express his inner self, since his only way of communicating with the world is cut off by death?
Was the ending a breakdown of the narrator? He started stating bizarre questions and ended the story saying that it is the season of strawberries. Does this have a further meaning or is it depicting that life becomes meaningless if it always has to end and that realization shaking the narrator?
Does the narrator have the existential crisis that he portrays in Macabea? Why else would he constantly have to talk about himself and his stance rather than actually starting the story?
is it due to the fact that Rodrigo feels any person can take the place of macabea that he doesn’t place any attention towards telling her story in the beginning of the story. Do to a large number of people living similar circumstances to macabea
If Rodrigo connects with the girl so much, can it be possible that Rodrigo is telling part of his own story? Also would this be considered like free writing?
I do not really get the style of writing. If the main character of the story is the northeastern girl, why would the author spends the first ten pages on himself? And also there are some long sentences without any punctuation, which makes the readers hard to “breathe.” Did he write that on purpose? Did the author mean to write in a style as if he is only talking to himself?
Is the girl described in the story someone that Rodrigo knows or someone that he has invented for his story? He dreads this girl as if he knows, and despises, her, but he also explains that he is unsure how the story will play out. How could he possibly despise a figment of his imagination that he has yet to fully invent yet?
Why does the author want his story to be cold and what does he mean when he said he has the “right to be sadly cold”? What is he trying to reveal here?
Why does the author, Clarice Lispector, write the story in Rodrigo’s perspective and not the girl’s own perspective?
What is Rodrigo S.M trying to achieve by writing about this girl?