Blog #5- Text To Text

Gabby Fernandez

UH3

Gender & Literature

Text-to-Text Response

Middlesex is a book that reveals how Callie views her sexuality and how she approaches it. Callie is very attracted to The Object and we see this attraction grow even more when Callie pretends to be Rex Reese when they are kissing. It is very clear that Callie is sexually attracted to The Object. This sexual attraction is clear when Callie waits for The Object to fall asleep in bed so that she can move closer to her and touch her, ever so slightly. As the nights go by Callie can’t control her desires to touch The Object even more. She says, “I turned the light off. I pressed against the Object. I took the backs of her thighs in my hands, adjusting her legs around my waist. I reached under her. I brought her up to me. And then my body, like a cathedral, broke out into ringing” (387). It’s so clear from how Callie describes touching the Object she is in a state of euphoria. A sort of desire she can’t help but experience more than once.

This reminded me of Adam and Eve from the Genesis we read earlier this year. Adam and Eve are partners, they live together, care for the earth together, and love each other. They express their love for each other through sex, and they have sex a lot! They are driven by desire and in parts of The Genesis it hints that they are having sex a lot and everywhere! Adam, Eve, Callie and even The Object are all driven by sexual desire and their actions reflect that. When The Object allows and reacts positively to Callie putting her hands into The Objects pants. Although we can assume The Object is straight, it is clear that there is some sexual desire that she feels and wants along with Callie. They are constantly with each other- they’ve seen each other naked (well, only The Object) but they are comfortable and love one another’s company just like Adam and Eve! They both didn’t think it was a bad act because they were both blinded by the pleasure of it all- until god punished Adam and Eve and Jerome caught Callie and The Object.