"Eva Is Inside of Her Cat"

In this short story, a young lady upset with her physical appearance takes her own life. One would think she took her life, becasue she was ugly, but Eva was a very beautiful. She took her own life, because she hated that, because she was good looking she could not meet a guy for the right reasons or be taken seriously by people in general. Eva took her life to escape from her curse of beauty. However, once she was dead she found herself trapped in an even worse position than she was in while she was alive. Her situation reminds me of Marquez's home country, Colombia. It is like a metaphor for the country and the war it is going through. While she wanted to try and escape from her unfortunate situation, she found hrself trapped in an even worse situation for eternity.