Reading notes for story 3(KK)

 1) identifying characters, 2) summarizing the plot, and 3) offering some personal response/ideas about the story

Between the Pool and the Gardenias:
Main characters in the play are Marie, Rose, Marie's husband, Marie's family, Dominican man who is a cleaner of the pool, and Marie's Madame and Monsieur.
One day Marie, who is a maid at her Madame and Monsieur's house, found a dead baby on the street. Probably because she is still grieving over her miscarriages, she "adopted" that dead baby and named it Rose. In her town/cities, nobody will throw a baby away, because that will be punished by the gods and by their families. But in the big city where she lives right now, people just throw the baby everywhere, even in the trash can. One important thing is that Marie mentions that her great grandmother Eveline was killed by Dominican soldiers at the Massacre River; her grandmother Defile was died with a bald head in a prison; her godmother Lili committed suicide after her husband had jumped out of a flying balloon. All these information refer that she is the daughter of the Josephine, the female narrator of the "Nineteen Thirty-Seven," and her godmother is Lili, one of the main characters in "A Wall of Fire Rising." One day she had sex with The Dominican, but after that he never spoke to her again. Later on, because the corpse is rotting, it had a really bad smell so that Marie gave the baby bathe three times a day and tried to use her Madame's perfume to cover the smell. But at the end, she found out that it her act was actually trapped Rose's soul, so she decided to let her go. When she was digging the hole in order to bury the baby, The Dominican found her and thought that she killed the baby and used it for evil rituals. At last, they were standing there and waiting for the gendarmes. I think this story covers the theme of love. Because Marie missed her own baby too much, she adopted the dead baby on the street. She talked to her everything, but a corpse was still a corpse. And this story also contains the theme of religion. In the conversation between Marie's madame and monsieur, they talked about the region Voodoo. Also at the last part of the story, The Dominican's thought about Marie was doing some evil rituals was also about religion.