![]() ![]() But in general, she is a simple girl from the gutters of Paris who, by accident, possesses the most magnificent and lustful body of the age. At times, she can respond spontaneously, as when she tries briefly to be true to Georges Hugon, or she can have a perverse sense of loyalty, as when she adheres to Fontan in spite of his brutality. She has no wit, no talent, and no intellect. This Nana possesses no particularly outstanding traits. Regardless of how much luxury or elegance she is surrounded with, she periodically returns to the streets to pick up men at random merely to relieve her sense of boredom. She can never escape for long the environment from which she came. ![]() She is the product of the gutters of Paris, and her environment influences her actions throughout the novel. The simple Nana is a girl from a disrupted home - her father died of alcoholism and her mother of starvation. There are actually two Nanas in the novel: One is the simple girl of the streets who wants to be respected but does nothing to gain anyone's respect the other is the symbolic Nana who represents the erotic love goddess and who embodies the concept of extreme sexuality. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |