Summary Of Josiemaid By Pablo Neruda

The famous poet, Pablo Neruda, was deeply in love with a woman named Josie, who reciprocated that affection and they became a couple. Despite their feelings for one another, the bond between them was broken because of Josie. Neruda loved Josie; However, Josie was too in love with Neruda. She was too clingy and paranoid that Neruda would leave her and as a result, Neruda did leave her. The relationship between Pablo Neruda and Josie fell apart due to jealousy, distrust, miscommunication, anger, mental abuse, and a threat of death.
Josie was very jealous and was very possessive of Neruda. She would often lash out at him for the slightest hint of infidelity. To Neruda, "[Josie's] jealous tantrums turned into an illness." She would be constantly paranoid that Neruda was cheating on her. "The letters [Neruda] received made her jealous and furious." She didn't even know the contents of his mail; yet, she believed that they were from another woman. When Neruda ran away to Ceylon, she followed him and camped outside his house. There, "[Josie] spent all her time posted at the front door, looking out for anyone who came to visit [Neruda], and she would pounce on them and insult them." Despite knowing that Neruda wanted out of their relationship, she was still trying to prevent others from being with Neruda.
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She would often say that when Neruda died, her paranoia would cease. This was obviously in reference to her nightly routine of deciding whether or not to kill him. In addition, when Neruda tried to flee to Ceylon, "Josie Bliss had pitched camp in front of [Neruda's] house.... with [Josie and Neruda's] favorite Pail Robeson records, and a long rolled-up mat." She tried to pressure Neruda into taking her back. When Josie made up her mind to leave, she prostrated before Neruda, and "begged [Neruda] to go with her to the ship." She tried many ways to pressure and manipulate Neruda into taking her back to no