Monologue Of Terezas

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After Tereza arrives to Prague to visit Tomas, he is both overjoyed and concerned about what will happen with Tereza, especially after he sees her luggage. “He had celebrated [his divorce] the way others celebrated marriage… He tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could ever move in with a suitcase… the enormously heavy suitcase stood by the bed” (Kundera, 10). Tomas hates the life of weight, and he enjoys his erotic friendships. We can see in his inner monologue that after his messy divorce with his previous wife, he vowed never to take on another woman's weight. He crafted his entire life around never feeling anything other than sexual pleasure for another woman, and never committing to just one person. In spite of this, Tomas …show more content…

Tomas and Tereza escape the city life and move to a home in the country, to simplify their lives. However, the other town’s people are less than appreciative for their simple living. “Because everyone wanted to leave, Tereza and Tomas were in an exceptional position: they had come voluntarily… Tereza and Tomas were content to remain as they were” (283). Tomas and Tereza are finally happy together, they aren’t being persecuted by the secret police or have any stressors that put strain on their marriage before. Tomas stops womanizing, mostly because he has limited access to the women who don’t know his wife. Also, Tomas cannot be jealous of anyone Tereza spends time with, because most of her time is occupied with the Heifers or Karenin. It is because their lives are simple and without a true goal that Tomas and Tereza are happy. After two years of blissful indifference, Tereza worries about the secret letters sent to Tomas. She thinks they are from a beloved mistress he couldn’t let go of. To her surprise Tomas tell her about the letters. “’from time to time I get letters I haven’t told you about… They’re from my son… Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines” (307). Tomas’ character is very closed off, and he tells Tereza little or nothing about his private business. He hardly ever told Tereza about anything is was going, or had already done. The fact that Tomas tells his wife about the letters to his son is astounding, and he shares his worries with her about Simon and himself, how they are running in parallel lines. Tereza can obviously relate because she feels like nothing more than a continuation of her mother’s life, she hated to see the resemblance between them. Tomas fells the same about his son, he dislikes seeing his smile on a boy he doesn’t know. Now that Tomas has stopped womanizing and

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