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Salmacis- was an atypical naiad who rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness. Her attempted rape of Hermaphrodites places her as the only nymph rapist in the Greek mythological canon Jane Bowles- american writer and playwright.

It made me understand that we learn and experience alot of things while we are still young and that sometimes deformities in ourselves make us very self conscious. It made me really open my eyes and actually feel bad for what Cal was going through. She felt like she didnt fit in and that she was an odd person but really she is a normal human being just like everyone else but she has a deformities. i think he went into detail about all this because he really wanted to put out there the way that people feel sometimes and how self conscious some people actually are. He also basically says what everybody was thinking and didnt want to say, he actually writes it on paper. It didnt make me feel too uncomfortable but some parts did go into get detail, but that just made the story so much more interesting.

"With respect to my father I will always remain a girl. There's a kind of purity in that, the purity of childhood"(512). I just think this quote really symbolizes a great relationship between Milton and Cal. Also that she has become one with her identity and that she really does believe she is a girl but now she will change into a man. she wants to remember her childhood as a girl to be pure to herself and it is a good way to remember her father.