Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal Dreams": Alice


She is dead. She does not appear physically but haunts mentally. She is
Codi and Hallie's mother Alice, the late wife of Homero Noline. Throughout the
novel Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver, Alice impacted the characters, action,
and theme(s).
When Alice passed away she took part of Homer with her. What she left
was a misfit of time and circumstance; an emotionally distraught and distant man
who attempted to resemble a father but veered more towards the tin man. Homero
existed beyond his wife as only a page out of an instruction manual, the one
with the caution statement. Homero's delicate heart decided that the only way
to endure Alice's death was to flush any remembrance or resemblance of her out
of his fortified technical realm which throughout the novel becomes increasingly
skewed. Kingsolver pushes home this idea by omitting Alice from any of Homer's
frequent flashbacks which are usually mishaps from the past involving......

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