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...confusion between image and reality Otoko seeks release from her sadness in the vision of her Intant. Oki tries to break out of his loneliness by finding the heroine of his novel in its model. Confronted by these images, none of the characters is finally able to smash the mirror to see the others as real, independent people...
...Underworld, or hell, is entered through a mirror instead of over the river Styx. The two are similar, but the symbolism of Cocteau's approach is more explicit and eccentric. He imbues a pretty mundane object the mirror with suggestive properties at the moment when you no longer possess an image when you can't be reflected, you're dead Similarly. Orpheus's bloody head-- lopped off by the Bacchantes--turns into a marble bust when it's propped on a pedestal. There are plenty of strange transformations in this play, and they mingle the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland...
...supernatural qualities when she spies him hanging in mid-air, and demands that he explain this "miracle." To calm her he comments that "Things do lie at times. At the fair I saw a naked woman walking along the ceiling." But, she retorts, "This was not done with mirrors." Cocteau's French text has her say that the feat has "nothing to do with a machine." Machines, in this case, suggest the surreal aspects of the play more directly, anticipating the striking automatism of Death. Machines convey more than a link to the inhuman realm of the mirror; they also...
...that she has to collect unemployment compensation ($63 a week). Most of all, she misses the job. "When I am working, I feel 24 years old. When I am not working, I feel as if I'm 90. I don't even want to look in the mirror." She spends many days sitting in a state placement office or in a hall of her union, the Distributive Workers of America, waiting-and waiting-for a job to be posted. "There seems to be no hope, no hope," she says. "But I'm going to keep trying...
Hersey's human truth gives continuity to Sam's poses in the paragraphs of unspoken thoughts--brain-twinges that evoke corresponding tingles of recognition in the reader. For instance, the opaque petition window--presumably a one-way mirror--blocks sight...