es, stashing, nagging, needing, like a lost man, who finds his ecstasy
             in the recital of Maria's stories of the"smooth and bright polished" [gold] (94), driving him mad,
             tormenting him to the point of no return, showing the reader his distorted fantasies– a sick and
             dry dead end. The character of Trina is depicted as a petite pretty girl with blue eyes "like the
             half open eyes of a little baby," with am a charming poise, innocent, confiding, almost
             infantile"(17). However though she may be described as the innocent gi
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