The Rememberer

The Rememberer is a story about a woman who was in love with a man and loses him in the relationship. She comes to a point where she could not communicate with him thoroughly to repair the relationship enough to see him as a person. She finally has to let him go to be who he needs to be. The symbolism of the relationship is transformed from love to loss. The love she has in the beginning for her lover is the connection she has with him is identified with the first time they make love and their eyes are open. She explains the closeness shared between the two of them. The eyes open shows the searching of the relationship. The lovers talk to each other throughout the relationship, but I do not believe she fully understands him because he speaks about dreaming and she does not understand what he is saying. She has a hard time understanding to the point she cannot sleep. She reflects on trying “to dream
I believe this is the first time she realized her relationship is not what she expected it to be because she refers to not generalizing her wishes because of the consequences of her past which is the beginning of her sadness.
The deterioration in the relationship begins with Ben, her lover, turning into an ape. The lover symbolizes what she had sought out to look for in a person but was not quite what she thought him to be. The author briefly touches on the intensity, but does not show the elaboration to the fullest extent, making me believe the love was a farce from the beginning. The changing from man to ape symbolized, to me, how we as people characterize other humans when we become judgmental of others. This symbolizes the degradation of the relationship as it begins to separate and the two begin to grow apart from each other. Because it is briefly touched on in the beginning of the story, the