Between the Pool and the Gardenias Reading Notes
Characters:
The female narrator, Marie
A Dominican pool cleaner
Summary：
In the beginning, the narrator found a dead baby on the street and she thought that the dead baby is beautiful and awaken her consciousness to babies in her mind. Then the narrator recalls her unhappy memory with her cheating husband because the sense of betrayed is harmful to her. She names the baby Rose and takes her from the street. Also, she considers that this dead baby is her child. The narrator is a maid and she put the baby in her room. There is a Dominican pool cleaner cleaning at there three times a week and they once made love on the grass. Rose has gradually become rotten, in order to cover that, then Marie used the perfume but it doesn't work well. Eventually, Marie decides to take Rose down to a spot behind the big house and digs a hole for her, but it is seen by the Dominican pool cleaner. He claims that it's a devil activity, Rose, Marie, and the cleaner stay between the pool and the gardenias waiting for the law.
It is interesting that this story mentions the relationship between the narrator and the other characters from "Nineteen Thirty Seven" and " A Wall of Fire Rising", but it doesn't provide essential information to this story. The name of the story "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" implies a contrast between gender. From the point of view of from the narrator, she is a sufferer from the betraying of her husband. The strong obsession with babies drives her to pick the dead baby, while male characters in the story have brought many troubles for her, including the pool cleaner. Even though the dead baby is almost rotted, her crazy mind to babies and prejudice or misunderstanding from male characters lead to the end.
The female narrator, Marie
A Dominican pool cleaner
Summary：
In the beginning, the narrator found a dead baby on the street and she thought that the dead baby is beautiful and awaken her consciousness to babies in her mind. Then the narrator recalls her unhappy memory with her cheating husband because the sense of betrayed is harmful to her. She names the baby Rose and takes her from the street. Also, she considers that this dead baby is her child. The narrator is a maid and she put the baby in her room. There is a Dominican pool cleaner cleaning at there three times a week and they once made love on the grass. Rose has gradually become rotten, in order to cover that, then Marie used the perfume but it doesn't work well. Eventually, Marie decides to take Rose down to a spot behind the big house and digs a hole for her, but it is seen by the Dominican pool cleaner. He claims that it's a devil activity, Rose, Marie, and the cleaner stay between the pool and the gardenias waiting for the law.
It is interesting that this story mentions the relationship between the narrator and the other characters from "Nineteen Thirty Seven" and " A Wall of Fire Rising", but it doesn't provide essential information to this story. The name of the story "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" implies a contrast between gender. From the point of view of from the narrator, she is a sufferer from the betraying of her husband. The strong obsession with babies drives her to pick the dead baby, while male characters in the story have brought many troubles for her, including the pool cleaner. Even though the dead baby is almost rotted, her crazy mind to babies and prejudice or misunderstanding from male characters lead to the end.
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