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This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one? Add another edition? Copy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help? Nick Joaquin's The woman who had two navels. Nick Joaquin. Donate this book to the Internet Archive library. After 2 days, Paco went back to Hong Kong.

Pepe states that both Connie and Senora de Vidal have an evil hold on him and he knows that he will go running to them when they call him. But he does not call it love. Pepe also realized both his father and Paco have a similar traumatized look after they came back from the Philippines. Pepes father could not answer most of Pacos questions since he came back to Hong Kong from Manila.

All he said while he is in his room was Dust and crabs.. Rita is Pepes wife and Helen is a friend. Pepe called Rita to invite her for a dinner with Paco and Mary to a club in Tovarich. In Tovarich, they met Pete Alfonso, a bandleader who is seeking a pianist and a singer.

Paco applied and got hired. The next important thing that happened was that Pepe found Connie Escobar naked inside the club and talked to her for he knows Connie needs him, with a promise to Rita that he would just do it with a couple of minutes.

After a short talk with Connie, Pepe went back to Rita and told her and the rest of the group to go home without him so he can help Connie in her problem, which made Rita get angry. Connie had driven her car so fast that made Pepe to cry stop! Then Connie told Pepe why she was driving so fast because she feels like shes running away.

She related it to a story where she ran away from school, not because of her father whipping her a lie told by Concha to Pepe, but because she was ashamed that her. Then Pepe advised Connie to ask advise to her brother, Tony, at the convent, but Connie instead wanted to go in her hotel. However, when Connie went to her room in the hotel, she rushed back to Pepe telling him that Macho, her husband, is inside and she does not want to see him.

She told Pepe that Macho has other girls and one of them is her mother, Concha de Vidal. Paco learned from her that she found out the love letters of Macho and her mother. Because of this, Pepe helped Connie to go away from her hotel by letting her sleep in Ritas place, which made Rita even angrier. Connie asked Pepe to tell Macho that she was sick and does not want to see him, which Pepe agreed to do. Macho, however, stopped Pepe when he was leaving his room and told Pepe the story of their marriage and that he knew Connie knew of his past affair with her mother because of the letters, but he insisted it was over and done with.

Macho also mentioned that his father died and he has to take care of their hacienda. When Pepe went home, just before daylight when Rita awoke, they did not find Connie in the sofa. She was gone. In the convent of St. Andrew, Connie, as per Pepes advice, sought help from Father Tony Monson about the explanation of her two navels. She says she is grateful and horrified at the same time of her state.

Father Tony did not believe her and advised her to see an older priest instead so she would realize that shes only delusional. However, she went away without consulting Father Prior. Meanwhile, Senora de Vidal, visited St. Ritas Shop and fortunately saw Father Tony there. She told him that all Connie was saying are lies, but Father Tony, when asked if he finds the problem silly, replied that it was serious.

Finally, she told him about the reason why she married Macho off to Connie. It was because she hated Connie for preventing her from running off with Macho for she has a responsibility to Connie who was still a child. Moreover, she told Father Tony that Connie really thinks that all the time Connie still loved her, she was already planning to destroy her daughter, but this was urgently stopped by Father Monson. Later that night, Concha was remembering the time when she was fifteen, when she first met her first husband, Esteban Borromeo a handsome boy, a good painter, an activist.

She married him but was widowed by his death. And then she met the abortionist, Dr. Manolo Vidal, after seeking help because she got pregnant by an effete writer and does not want to embarrass her father. After the abortion, she turned to religion with equal passion she displayed with earlier love affairs. But before she committed herself to God, Manolo Vidal came back into her life to court her, and later married her.

On the other hand, The Monson brothers found Connie in their apartment and relayed the information that Macho wants to start from scratch with Connie wherever she might want to go as long as they are together.

She insists that the knowledge of her two navels will scare him away. At this point, the sense of nationalism or being the Filipinos is portrayed not only through main female characters such as Connie and Concha, M. Monson, who has still longed for his native country, the Philippines. Monson always teaches his son, Pepe about his beloved home country, the Philippines. Even though Dr. Monson once vowed not to return to the Philippines unless it gained independence, he finally came back. According to the given question, what made him come back to Hong Kong a changed person, a person who keeps complaining about dust and crabs everywhere in his room probably results from knowing bad news that the flag of his country waved at last in sovereign solitude.

The fact that he becomes frail and altered after confronting the destruction of the Philippines implies that he could not help his beloved country even though he was once a revolutionist and used to fight alongside other revolutionaries. Thus, his incapability to protect the country presumably reflects the failure of his masculinity, causing him become frail and altered.

In other words, Dr. Daughter, Connie Escobar. Moreover, their relationship to each other brings out the theme of failure of mother- daughter relationship. Most apparently, the reason of the created hatred between the both of them triggers in the moment Connie Escobar knows or catches Macho Escobar with his letters to Concha de Vidal, in which the relationship between her mother and her husband is revealed. And more of Concha de Vidal, I see her character as also a symbol in the story that Joaquin uses as an instrument to help for his own description to the Philippines, which is represented by the metaphor of Connie Escobar as mentioned in the first pages.

America, on the other hand, has a very big major role in molding the fate of the Philippines. America is the one who sets almost, if not the entire, status quo in the Philippines most especially during the post-World War II. Concha de Vidal is a misrepresentation of sympathetic, responsible mother to Connie Escobar; and even serves as the rival against her daughter for having a relationship with Macho Escobar.

America is unquestionably taking for granted the Philippines and its major purpose on befriending the Filipinos is to colonize the country and even make the country Philippines as its state because they see Philippines as rich in resources.

Therefore, I may conclude in this study that Nick Joaquin is actually having this character of Concha de Vidal in the story to serve as a metaphor for the America as colonizers of the Philippines.

Macho Escobar — Connie Escobar Their relationship together as a couple is also a fail. Or could it be that the other characters, Dona Concha Vidal, Macho Escobar among others were feeling a sense of responsibility to what has happened to Connie? Macho Escobar admits that he and Concha de Vidal have had a relationship way back when he was just young. His character in the story is confused character whether he is reliable or not. In the story, his love for her wife Connie Escobar is not really justified and even established.

It is just that he claims he have to go to Connie Escobar because he needs to protect her from political threats. But still, there are still no established proofs for a certain higher emotion than of the fact that he is responsible for his wife. He is a holy person or character in the story and seeks to arrange the puzzle, along with his younger brother Pepe Monson, in the mother and daughter relationship, giving much more attention to the daughter Connie Escobar.

The most significant event in the story that he is included is his meeting with Connie Escobar in the convent where stays in. They were human, my child. And if we were to reject all worldly authority for that reason, we would have to reject everything: marriage and government and society; the family, the state and the church.

We would have to abolish the world. The most significant event is in the Tovarich. Although there are no direct significance of these characters to Connie Escobar, they still have significance to the characters connected to the protagonist of the story.

To sum up the entire book, Joaquin tries to represent the entire country with just a single woman who is tested with mind and psychological corruption through her relationship with other characters in the story.

A Catholic monastery on the eve of the Feast of the Chinese Moon. Manila during the transition from Spanish rule to American rule, and through both World Wars.

A Visayan implantation where the decades pass and yet nothing changes. Tirad Pass, where everything changed. The setting of this fictional novel is in Hong Kong, after the 2nd World War. This is written in the 1st person view where the author narrates the story. There are also parts in this novel which points to the Philippines, especially in the flashbacks. The theme of this novel is hallucination done by a woman. It shows how one woman controls the whole story with make-believe information which affected the whole characters in the story.

It can also be defined as coming to terms with the political consciousness during that period. The novel also contained mixtures of hatred, love, anger, insecurities, and sufferings that manifest in the realities of life making the flow of the story more provocative and appealing to the audience.

The story started with Connie, a daughter of a wealthy politician. Connie portrayed herself as a person with two navels. Literally, when a woman has two navels, this means that she has two umbilical cords. The navel is the shortened umbilical cord - usually removed when a person is born. But it is not possible because if a person has two umbilical cords, he is a preternatural being a mutant.

Let us not also forget her inability to deal with her life due to parental constrictions and the love affair of her husband Macho and her mother that made her feel miserable at some points in her life. She learned to face reality and accepted the truth. In my point of view, her reason why she pretended to have two navels is that she wanted to forget everything. Theme Home and exile. The choice between good and evil. The paying of old debts and the cost of saving a single soul. And although you might miss it if you blink, also the making of a priest.

The problem of Connie is how to remove her other navel. Because if she if ever give birth, where would the other umbilical cord be connected. Connie told Pepe the story about her child hood times. And she was not just got married that day, but she was married almost a year already. Pepe knows Paco because they were classmates during they are in Grade School.

Paco was in manila with his band to play and sing in two different clubs, they had already signed contracts. One time, Connie's mom was not around their house, and Paco met Connie. Starting that time, connie started watching Paco and his band playing for the club. Until one they, there were few people fighting and one of them got shot. Connie was there and she was shocked.

Paco with Connie went together to a Chinese Temple. Connie told Paco that she can talk to somebody else, Connie left him. They drove till they reach Paco's hotel. Paco went out of his hotel room and go away. After that happening, 2 days to be exact, Paco left Manila alone and went back to Hong Kong.

Mary, Pepe, Paco went to the park and talked.