The tigers Bride Quotes Flashcards
Context
Travels with her father back to Italy
The father bets his daughter to a milord and looses
The milord resembles a beast but wears the mask of a human
Milords valet gives her white roses one she gives to her father but pricks her finger
Valet shows narrator magic mirror sees her father drunk and demands to know why milord wants to see her naked (virginity)
She removes her clothes and feel free
She views her father this time with riches and he means to leave without her
She stretches out her hand to the milord and he kicks her with his rough tongue which exposes her animal fur
The narrator and her breasts
Breast ripped apart as if [she] suffered a marvellous wound
The narrator and her reflection
Pale hollow-eyed girl
Critic- carter
I am all for putting new wine in old bottles especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode