The Ants, a short story written in 1986, shows similarities to another document: The First History of Brazil from 1587. Additionally, the story also shows similarities to Jungian psychology with regard to the dwarf. The ants in the short story are rebuilding the dwarf skeleton, which can be read as the girls’ fear of exploring their own unconsciousness and inner beings. At the beginning of the story, The Ants, there are two young girls who find a dwarf skeleton that had been hidden by an old tenant. When, “delicately she put them away, as if she were arranging eggs in a basket” (The Ants 3), she awoke the next day to find it not as she had left it. They then see that it is being rebuilt slowly, bone by bone, by small ants. At first, the girls
