The Kiss of the Spider Woman Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 5 Summary

Chapter 5 Summary

This chapter opens with the two men talking. Molina is still ill. Valentin is going to study. He is not very sympathetic with his ill cell mate. So instead of telling about a movie, Molina thinks about one to himself, to keep his mind off his cramping stomach. The portion of the writing in his thoughts has a distinctive surreal quality. The thoughts are only in phrases, patches of sentences. T

The movie he remembers is about a young servant girl who goes to work in a large house in the middle of some woods. A young man and his fiancé are about to come live in the house. They leave, and then the young man enters the air force and goes off to war. When he returns, he is horribly disfigured, but the servant stays and waits on him. In the middle of his reverie, Molina's thoughts wander to...
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