She befriends Miranda and they have a homosexual relationship as she tells Miranda about how she came into existence and how there are others that are almost just like her (the Sonias). She is part carp, leading the reader to believe that she may somehow be connected to the Salt Fish Girl. He is a working class citizen until he is fired from his job and he moves to the “Unregulated Zone.” In the “Unregulated Zone,” he owns a shop where he sells durians.Įvie is a bioengineered human-clone. Miranda's dad originally worked for the government as a “tax collector.” He enters the “real world” and the government pays him for the work he does there. But as she becomes more involved with Evie she becomes more involved in government issues while not entirely understanding them herself. Miranda is the representation of a world sheltered from government involvement. Flowers has created she becomes more and more knowledgeable. She has a sheltered life until she explores the virtual word within her father's “business suit.” As she uncovers the bioengineering world that Dr.
She relies on her family a lot because as she is growing up they are the only ones who are consistently there for her growing up. She comes from a family in which her father worked for the government and her mother was an old cabaret singer. Although it is implied that she is the reincarnation of Nu-Wa, it is never specifically stated. She reeks of the smell of durian which smells like “cat piss.” As she is growing up the smell slowly becomes weaker and weaker. Miranda is growing up in Serendipity in 2044.
She is the temptress of the book, acting like the snake in the Garden of Eden. She represents the workers of sweat shops and their strenuous conditions.Įdwina is the manipulative woman who convinces Nu Wa to come with her to the Island of Mists and Forgetfulness. She works hard to earn a “respectable living” by working in factories. The Salt Fish Girl is never given a real name, only referred to by her previous occupation. In the end, she preferred to commit suicide to being murdered. She is easily manipulated however, she has no guilt in murdering the woman who tricked her into leaving the Salt Fish Girl. She is easily manipulated into betraying the Salt Fish Girl for a pretty woman who offers her freedom from poverty. She is lazy, preferring to steal from people instead of working. She falls in love with the Salt Fish Girl and they run away together to the city. She is reborn in China in the late 1800s. Nu-Wa begins as a snake-person and as the creator of humans but she quickly becomes jealous of the humans that she creates and she wishes to become one of them. "The creators of characters, in the traditional sense, no longer manage to offer us anything more than puppets in which they themselves have ceased to believe." (Shields, 50) Nu Wa 2.5 The Island of Mist and Forgetfulness (Nu Wa).
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