The Dying Animal - Pages 123 - 156 Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 37 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Dying Animal.

The Dying Animal - Pages 123 - 156 Summary & Analysis

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After David returns Consuela’s call, she comes up to his apartment, claiming to need him, and tells him she has breast cancer. She found a lump in the shower, and the third doctor she saw told her it was something to worry about. Most of her family has died, so she has no one left to reach out to. David tries to comfort her, to offer support; he even asks to touch her breasts, which she allows because she knows how much he loved them. She wants him to feel her cancer, but he declines for the moment, overwhelmed.

She tells him about the inadequate boyfriends she has had since dating David, and how none of them loved her body as much as he did. In fact, she came so he could see her breasts before the doctors butcher them. David asks...

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