Corregidora

Comparison to Lolita

In Lolita it is dressed up. The flowery language. From the attacker’s perspective.

Corregidora – All dialog, almost no description. Short and punctuated. Fast paced. Repetition of “I still wanna fuck you.” Preformative language.

The comparison between dialog and description. Dialog seems to be more honest, but in fact its through her memory, so it might be her speaking for him.

Roll of Euphemisms. Very prevalent in Lolita, but still present in Corregidora. Even Mutt does it: “I want to get in your ally.”

One sided conversation is a dialogic equivalent of rape.

Often times when she speaks it isn’t in quotes, but rather her telling us she said it.

What gives language its vulgarity? the word choice or the persistence? Parallel structure of “Pussy” and “Prosperous”

Tadpole and Mut are parallel characters. Alot of men start off nice, but end up bad. Mother suiter. Trope

While Ursa and Kat, say all sorts of vulgar words, homosexuality is a taboo subject.