My Life With The Wave Analysis

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In "My Life with the Wave," a man, while at the beach, is aroused by an ocean wave, which insists on following him to his house in Mexico City. The man and the wave have a passionate love affair, in which the wave is both loving and tough. Because she (the wave) is lonely, he brings her a school of fish to swim in her waters; but, when he becomes jealous from the waves attentions to the fish, he tries to attack them, and the wave nearly drowns him as he is trying to attack her beloved fish. After that, his love for the wave turns to "fear and resentment." To get away from her, he leaves home for a month. When he returns, he finds that the cold weather has turned the wave into "a statue of ice." With cold grudge, he sells the frozen wave to
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