... outside: inside I'm a sea of mud (51) This last image becomes real when Juan Preciado sleeps with her and wakes to find her body "melting into a pool of mud" (57). Her base and loathsome body takes a deadly turn with the suggestion that her body's disintegration causes Juan Preciado to suffocate. The strongest image conveyed here is that she has reverted to a primordial ... ...

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