Eyes of a Blue Dog Study Guide

Eyes of a Blue Dog is a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which is a dream scenario between a man and a woman whose love is never fully realized in real life. The story begins with the thoughts of a man who is watching a woman and trying to decide whether or not the woman is looking at him for the first time or he is looking at her for the first time. It is only when the woman turns around behind an oil lamp that the man realizes it is he who looks at her for the first time. The man is sitting on a chair balanced on one of the back legs contemplating the woman as they just look at each other for a few minutes. The narrator notices the woman's hand is now on the oil lamp and he recognizes the familiar cast of her eyelids which he sees every night. (read more)