Maria Just Maria

Making Sense of Maria's Mind

Good Novel with possible subtexts to ponder over.

At times it does sounds like a chain of unconnected stories coming one after the others mostly in semi caricaturist fashion.Those Unconnected Stories and plethora of semi caricaturist characters have predominant intention of amusing the reader and go no further.

These stories create a universe as seen by Maria but does not take any direction or do not have an impactful story arc to cherish or ponder over after we have read.Amusing one-liners keeps us engaged, at times writing makes us wonder at the simple explanations of many things, but on the whole, Novel does not create any overall lasting impact. Novel’s impact comes in parts with Independent glimpses of good writing.

Subtexts of Wandering Rural Vs Time Driven Urban, Commune Living in Urban Setup gives us the indicative view of world Maria Troubles.

Novel’s tone set us up for an interesting question of how we separate Desire from Ambition.

Maria’s Character seem to indicate to us on the great joy of desires of many things, but she seem devoid of any ambition.She loves talking to people around, Basks in Memories, longs for tasty food, always moving around but within in specific circle of repetition and worries about separation by death .Though she is devoid of any ambition, there is no indication of inaction, life seem to on the flux driven by desires of many things simpler and smaller.

Ambition as a Career , as Personality, as Good Will, as discipline, as an Economic benefit set against many things simpler and smaller.This Ambition vs Desire Arc makes reading this novel worthwhile.