![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is Eugenides' account of Cal's present that we see the ultimate result: an apparently attractive man named Cal at age 41 who is currently suffering from dating issues and gives off a positive on a woman's "gay radar". This same pool carried on through the family more successfully than their Greek culture, having traveled overseas and later coming to life in America when it spilled over into Calliope's life, changing her from a beautiful little girl to a boy at age 14. It was the marriage of his grandparents, who are not just siblings but also third cousins, making it legal for marriage and therefore acceptable in Calliope's grandfather's eyes, that added to the already corrupted gene pool of the Stephanides family. DOWNEY - "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides focuses on the confusing life of narrator, Calliope "Cal", and of the past generations of the Stephanides family, telling how their mistakes successfully followed them and eventually came to life in the form of a hermaphrodite.Eugenides begins his account of Calliope's, or Cal's, life and history by switching between his present and past-a past that trails all the way back to his traditional but not so conventional grandmother, Desdemona Stephanides. ![]()
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