Wedding Cake (a confusing
story by itself) does not fit into Freud’s theory. There are no gaps or
silences within the text, the main character doesn’t avoid topics, and her
inner monologue is very detailed. There are aspects of the story that the
author doesn’t introduce, like how the minister turned into a wedding cake, and
whether it actually happened or was an hallucination or dream. That could just
be to confuse the reader, however.
The scene where
the minister turns into a wedding cake, whether a dream or reality, and the
main protagonist being ‘sucked away serenely, like an acrobat’ into the cake
could represent her desire to be swept away from the prospect of marriage, and
resume life as an ‘amazon’.
There is no
strong father-daughter bond, although her father does make and appearance. Freud
would probably have a field day with the line ‘You’ll be a princess’, spoken
from her father to her (main protagonist). She has a pleasant relationship with
her mother, and there are no difficulties the audience can pick up on. Wedding
Cake doesn’t fit into Freud’s cocaine induced theory.
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