A way to deem this event feasible would be for the narrator to have schizophrenia, the illness which renders the patient unable to discern between real and unreal experiences. Nevertheless, whether the intention of Cortázar’s ambiguity regarding the transformation and its different perspectives can be put into debate, the man does seem to transmute into the animal he feels so connected with. At first he desires to comprehend them, but understands the fact that what they must feel by being condemned to the narrow and claustrophobic floor of the tank can never be grasped outside of their living space. Then the metamorphosis occurs and he becomes just like them – trapped and imprisoned inside not only one of their little bodies, but their oppressive tank as well. The process ends and the now amphibian consoles his solitude by hoping the strange outsider who stopped visiting will once write about the
A way to deem this event feasible would be for the narrator to have schizophrenia, the illness which renders the patient unable to discern between real and unreal experiences. Nevertheless, whether the intention of Cortázar’s ambiguity regarding the transformation and its different perspectives can be put into debate, the man does seem to transmute into the animal he feels so connected with. At first he desires to comprehend them, but understands the fact that what they must feel by being condemned to the narrow and claustrophobic floor of the tank can never be grasped outside of their living space. Then the metamorphosis occurs and he becomes just like them – trapped and imprisoned inside not only one of their little bodies, but their oppressive tank as well. The process ends and the now amphibian consoles his solitude by hoping the strange outsider who stopped visiting will once write about the