All 5 Uses of
Medusa
in
The Wanderers
- It showed Perseus with the head of the Medusa.†
*Medusa = Greek mythology: a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone
- Cutting off the Medusa's head was the heroic act, perhaps, that made visible a horror in life, that was at once the horror in love, Virgie thought—the separateness.†
- Because Virgie saw things in their time, like hearing them—and perhaps because she must believe in the Medusa equally with Perseus—she saw the stroke of the sword in three moments, not one.†
- Every time Perseus struck off the Medusa's head, there was the beat of time, and the melody.†
- Endless the Medusa, and Perseus endless.†
Definition:
Greek mythology: a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone if they looked at her