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Compare And Contrast Between The Pools And The Gardenias
In Between the Pools and the Gardenias, a maid named Marie finds a dead baby in the street. She names it Rose and tells it about her miscarriages, her cheating husband, and the Dominican pool-cleaner who slept with her once. Marie pretends the house where she works belongs to her and the Dominican man. When the baby rots, she covers it with perfume and tries to wash it, but she finally decides the flies are trapping Rose’s spirit and buries Rose by the gardenias. The Dominican calls the police, claiming Marie killed the baby for evil purposes.
Marie and Rose are both similar. Marie has a childlike ignorance. Even after Rose starts to smell, Marie continues to wash her and sing to her and tell her stories. Rose is a dead baby. She was lying
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