Within all of “A Young Lady in Paris”, the unnamed narrator sends a letter to a lady in Paris, Andrea, about his troubles of vomiting rabbits. This however is not literally rabbits, as the reader needs to lose all notions of reality, but rather a personification of his self hatred. Near the ending of the letter, the narrator talks to Andrea of how the stress of the eleventh rabbit leads to anxiety and depression. “But not eleven, because to say eleven is to already say twelve for sure and Andrea, twelve would be thirteen” (Cortázar 10-11). The narrator feels all of his anxiety which is represented by the rabbits, closing in on him.When readers see this, they must not see the rabbits as actual rabbits, but rather personification of his self
