Moon Palace (Paul Auster)
Kitty Wu
| name: |
Kitty Wu (=young woman) |
| place of birth: | Taiwan |
| time of birth: | 1950 |
| parents : |
father: Chinese Kuomintang general mother: father’s second concubine |
| education: |
at the age of 14: sent to a boarding school (Fielding Academy, Massachusetts) later: ballet school of Juilliard, New York career as a dancer –> central importance to her |
| properties: |
warm hearted always in good spirits open to everyone partly playfully – partly seriously behaves very naturally without any embarrassment good humour gets along well with other people very ambitious |
| appearance: |
beautiful small no makeup no bra silver bracelets on both wrists beaded Navaho band around the head dresses extraordinary and attractive wears clothes that positively emphasize the shape of her body |
| relationship to Marco: |
falls in love with him at first sight kisses Marco good – bye when he leaves the party immediate mutual understanding much alike being almost two parts of a whole both wearing the same shirt seem as twins by the party guests both similar kind of childhood she waited a long time for Marco’s declaration of love enjoy the physical love gets pregnant — >abortion — > suffers from this decision — >DESTROYS THEIR RELATIONSHIP begging Marco on her knees not to leave her misses him while he is away when Marco wants to return to her it is to late –> new relationship |
| living with Marco: |
small household in a loft does not want to live on Marco’s money — > taking up a job ( in her free time ) “Had Uncle Victor lived to meet her, I’m sure he would have |