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- An anti-fairy tale full of desire and empty of consequence, the unnamed narrator is a wayward rich girl who prefers reading Swift and going to the zoo over dressing up and flirting with suitors.
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Dec 21, 2020 · Its narrator, Marian Leatherby, is ninety-two years old, gummy, rheumatic, gray-bearded, and deaf. Her lifelong dream is to tour Lapland in a sleigh drawn by woolly dogs.
- Merve Emre
Feb 5, 2021 · In ‘The Debutante’, the female narrator is a frequent visitor to her local zoo. There she befriends a hyena, who turns out to be very intelligent – “I taught her French and she, in turn, taught me her language.”
May 31, 2017 · “ The Oval Lady” is a companion piece to “The Debutante.” It is about Lucretia, a sixteen year old aristocrat trapped in the proverbial tower that is her family manor. Given to standing and looking outside of the window, her strange loveliness and stillness attracts the unnamed narrator.
They ask the narrator to move in with them and stay forever. When she flees, it is revealed that they are lepers, and as the woman waves goodbye her fingers drop to the ground “like shooting stars”.
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- Leonora Carrington
May 22, 2017 · In one of Carrington’s earliest stories, “The Debutante,” a young woman who does not want to go to a ball switches places with a hyena.
- Anwen Crawford
Nov 2, 2017 · Her prose is lively and unpretentious. But she tends to view the more prosaic aspects of Carrington’s work as autobiographical fact (going so far as to call the unnamed narrator of ‘The Debutante’ Leonora), while leaving the fantastical stuff out of her analysis altogether.
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Jan 5, 2014 · “The Debutante” by Leonora Carrington. WHEN I was a debutante I often went to the zoological garden. I went so often that I was better acquainted with animals than with the young girls of my age. It was to escape from the world that I found myself each day at the zoo. The beast I knew best was a young hyena. She knew me too.
