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Giacomo Kyle asked this question about Tender Is the Flesh:
What's your take on the ending? It seems it was a twist to reveal that the protagonist never truly had feelings for Jasmine and always just wanted to use her so he could have another child with Cecilia, since she couldn't carry and raise a healthy one. But earlier in the book, it mentions that the protagonist is "incapable of killing the female in his barn." So did something change in him?
Gayle Gordon I actually believe that he was slowly going mad. Seeing the overturned truck and the scavengers devouring people right in the street pushed him over. …moreI actually believe that he was slowly going mad. Seeing the overturned truck and the scavengers devouring people right in the street pushed him over. It was out of character for his normal self, but by the end he was not normal. Showing that his niece and nephew, who were raised in that society, are a couple of little psychopaths was kind of an indicator to me of the way he was going. The dream, where Sergio took his heart out of his chest and Cecilia replaced it with a stone was foreshadowing to him losing his last vestige of humanity. (less)
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Tender Is the Flesh
by Agustina Bazterrica
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