The Vegetational Fatherhood opens with an interesting scenario where a plant and a women cross breed. It was a rose that seems to have shared some type of intimacy together and now were able to produce a daughter through this rose, woman love affair of sorts. The author expects the reader to create their own visual of sorts when it comes to this scene. The roses are longer roses yet they become a handsome young man embracing the woman. However her lap is covered with rose petals during this interaction. She is also then thought to be ill which a doctor then asks her if she has been in the midst of a love affair and she admits to doing so. This is just hard to wrap around one's head to what exactly happened between that rose and the woman. The tale is fairy tale like because we are not supposed to truly question what exactly happen and how did that interaction form a child. This story is basically just trying to reveal the different ways people can view love, sex and intimacy. I sort of pictured that scene in American Beauty when the rose petals are draped over the young lady's body. Except here they pro-created. Its mystical which keeps it part of that Fairy tale arena.
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I think your interpretation of the tale as revealing different views of intimacy is interesting. I see the story as more focused on the relationship between humans and nature.
ReplyDeleteI liked the connection to fairy tales. How we're just supposed to accept that a child was created...not necessarily how.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I also agree with Mallory in that I think the story has more to do with humans interacting with nature than the views of love, sex and intimacy.