Macbeth

Analysis

This is my favorite passage in this book because it's an introduction to how these two people Prior, and Harper meet in a dream that they both have while they have never met in person. The mystery that envelops the passage also provides a certain atmosphere that is to be set on the development of these two characters. I also think that the symbolism in this chapter is well shown because Priors life was shattered when Louis left him. He's dying and his love is leaving him, what else can go wrong? He tries to put on makeup to feel pretty and hide his sickness, but when Harper enters the dream, she sees right through the mask. They sit there asking each other why are they both in the same dream and begin to engage in a conversation. In the dream, Harper and Prior can see right through each other. Like they can read the other's mind or just sense the tension. Harper begins to tell Prior about how her hallucination is made up of part and pieces she observes from the world. That she does it to escape her reality only to realized that its still there in a different form.

This dream happens and deals with the problems that both Prior and Harper are facing in life and with no one to talk to but talk to each other through the dream. It's a pretty ironic and mysterious situation because both have never met the other and have no idea why they're dreaming about them. Harper tells Prior he's a very sick man and Prior tells her that her husband is gay. The problems are brought up and both try to deny it. They then realize that the truth hurts and instead of saying "Fuck the truth," Prior goes around and say sorry it's really "the truth fucks you." I found that a very interesting and true quote. The truth hurts and it screws you over. The mysterious voice in the end telling Prior to "prepare the way" aided the already obscure setting. I think that this peculiar