Summary:
In these last couple of chapters, the narrator talks about how she has a too much male hormone. She inherited a very rare genetic condition, where the mutation express itself. The treatment that was recommended for her is twofold. First, a hormone injections. Seconds, cosmetic surgery. This treatment will initiate breast development and enhance her female secondary sex characteristic. The surgery will make Callie look like the girl she feels inside of her. Callie will never menstruate. So, she will never be able to have children. Callie doesn't agree with the surgery. So, she decides to go away, and write a letter to her parents. In her letter, She states that Dr. Luce, the surgeon, is a big liar. She said that she is not a girl. She is a boy, and that is what she found out. When Callie ran away to California, He went to jail. His brother, Chapter Eleven, had to fly to California in order for him to get custody of his brother, and released him.
Quote:
"My own medical story was only a reflection of what was happening psychologically to everyone" (Eugenides, 478)
Reaction:
Callie is saying that what she went threw, everyone is going threw it now. Women were becoming more and more like men. And men were also become more and more like women. For a little while, sexual difference might pass away. But another thing seems to happen. This was called evolutionary biology. Were the sexes were separated by men being hunters, and women being gatherers.
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