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Sexual Rivalry Between Good Friends

Sexual Rivalry between Good Friends
In the short story called The Roman Fever brings up many metaphoric ideas that make this story effective. After analyzing this short story, there were many ideas that ran through this story, but three main metaphoric ideas really stuck out to me. The metaphor of the illness, that deals with hate and life, the sexuality rivalry, and the surprise ending that the reader does not expect. This story is very effective because of how the life stories of Grace, and Alida affected their two daughters, and explaining how they have been guarded, because of the way their mothers were raised. This story is based around Grace and Alida’s girlhood and Grace's illness after a nighttime sightseeing trip.
After reading the story the personal conclusion that was derived was that the status of illness in the story is metaphoric rather than material; the transgressively sexual content of Roman fever is developed by its modern parallel in the "cold" Grace catches, wh...

Posted by: Andres Cisneros

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