full of lies and deception to her own husband, she never became sensitized by love, even that which should be provided to a child. Her disdain was a consequence of living a life that was not truly relished because only through self-love and love for others, could one fully reach complete integrity and self-actualization.Moreover, Esquivel made use of Magical Realism to (to a certain extent) provide the reader with signs of comic relief and also to hyperbolize situations that needed appropriate emphasis. Tita’s coldness when she first discovered that she was to remain unmarried for the rest of her life was one of these situations. The narrator compared the infinite coldness and emptiness that ran through Tita’s chest to “black-holes” in space (15). To cover this immense cold, Tita sewed every night for the rest of her life a bedspread, that no matter how long she made it, it still could not cover her coldness. Without Pedro, her true and only love she would never feel that completeness ever again thus leaving huge gaps for icy breezes to roam within her soul. When Dr. John went to rescue Tita after becoming demented from the madness of her mother’s ranch, and he placed her in a carriage, “Chencha tossed the enormous bedspread on her shoulders and Tita was left with no choice but to let it drag behind the carriage like the huge train of a wedding gown that stretched for a full kilometer”(101). The mix of colors, patterns and textures, and the longevity that composed the bedspread symbolized the intense delusion, suffering, loneliness, and coldness that entrapped Tita throughout all the years when her life and her love had been denied.There is a plethora of primal romance in this novel. Without that instantaneous attraction that occurs between two entranced bodies, Tita’s and Pedro’s eyes would have never met. They would have never experienced that unending desire to unite the...
