6/7/2023 0 Comments Uno nessuno centomila by luigiThe fragment demonstrates that the two identities are separated, as the reflection of the old one talks to the new one. … Then, well, then you’ll see! Pirandello, Luigi. Meis! Follow the advice of Miss Silvia Caporale! Call in Doctor Ambrosini and have your eye put in place again. And do you think you can get out of it by obliterating the last trace of me from your face? Do so, my dear Mr. Well, I was right, wasn’t I, as you very well know. What a mess you are in, Adriano Meis! Be honest, now! Tell the truth! You are afraid of Terenzio Papiano, and you would like to put the blame on me–on me again–just because when I was in Nice one day I had a little squabble with a Spaniard. We see that his old identity, the dead Mattia Pascal, is still alive, talking to Adriano Meis and confronting him with the problem he got himself into. In this scene, the reflection of the mirror tells him that his identity change did not entirely succeed. Adriano Meis is so scared to be recognized because of his crossed-eyed eye, that he decides to have surgery on this eye to get rid of Mattia Pascal. The personified mirror shows that the protagonist sees himself as Adriano Meis, but also that he is still Mattia Pascal. He is frightened to be recognized by this person and consults the mirror. Papiano, one of his hosts, has invited The Spaniard, a person who Adriano Meis met in Monte Carlo when he was still going through life as Mattia Pascal. The third and last time the protagonist stands in front of a mirror is in (XII) “The eye and Papiano”.
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