![]() ![]() She hatches a devious plot to achieve a different kind of freedom. Vitória’s sense of being stifled increases when she reconnects with Antoinette, now happily married to a poor man, and watches Dana move into professional dancing roles. Vitória feels naggingly unsatisfied and starts ballet lessons, where she befriends the most promising student, Dana. Her husband does not understand the unfocused, self-reflective observations she finally has time to write, but pampers her with everything she wants. When Vitória marries a rich man, she glides into a life of ease only marred by quiet clashes with her cold housekeeper. She commiserates with her lazy co-worker Antoinette, who longs for a husband. Vitória works as a cleaner at an art museum in an unnamed large, modern city, skips meals to afford simple splurges like a nice blouse, and yearns almost compulsively for the time and freedom to write about art. Cain ( Creature) upends fairy tale endings in her stimulating story of insidious oppression. ![]()
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