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The Decapitated Chicken Horacio Quiroga
In “The Decapitated Chicken”, Horacio Quiroga is able to depict the descent of a married couple, Mazzini and Berta. The couple appears, at first, to be happily married and filled with love for one another, as well as the desire to share that love with an offspring. However, their first four children are born with congenital disease, causing each child to become a disappointment to the couple, as they are not “normal”. Thus, the manifestation of hopelessness begins to make an appearance. This causes the couple to spiral into a continuous cycle of blaming one another, losing respect for one another, and losing their affection for each other. In a particular passage, Quiroga is able to demonstrate the first sign of the couple’s demise as he writes,
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