Manuel Puig's The Kiss of the Spider Woman, through many different discourses, tells the story of the developing friendship between two prison cellmates, Molina and Valentin. ... When recounting the interaction between two protagonists of a film, Molina says, "Okay, so then he wants to kiss her. ... He believes that truly loving someone, especially a woman, is futile and doomed to fail. ... Valentin shows just how dramatically he has changed when in his final dream Molina appears to him in to form of a spider woman. ... In turn, when Valentin becomes exhausted and famished, the spider...

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