I’ve just realized the connection between this book and the actress in my earlier dream.
I first learned about W.H. from a movie I watched with Juan in our apartment in El Salvador more than two decades ago. The movie was about an upper class family, that puts a room for rent in the mansion they live. They rented it to a young man that teaches literature in a high school nearby. He befriended the tenant's younger daughter, who also has a passion for books. They talk about W.H. and discuss other classic books. The young girl falls madly in love with the tenant, being the only interested men she had met so far. She is very attractive, the type that would be dating equally attractive sporty young men. However, she has a passion for poetry, books and all things that enrich the soul. The boys that courted her, are all dumb and ordinary.
The tenant is older than her, and maybe not so sporty and handsome, but shares the same interest. She falls madly in love with him ( having engaged in the same experience around the same age, this is definitely debris from my subconscious coming to the surface here) But he has a steady girlfriend, and is about to get married. The teenage daughter becomes obsessed with the tenant, and the plot follows how that obsession slowly becomes destructive.
In my dream, I wanted an “alternative ending” for the girl in the movie. In the dream, she is my sister. I always wanted to save my sister, I wanted her to be more selective with guys, not to choose men who were only interested in her body.
I fell asleep just when I was about to finish the novel. So in my dream, I had options for how the story ended.
That is the connection of the novel to the dream.
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