Professor Lee Quinby – Macaulay Honors College – Spring 2010

Posts Tagged: hereditary sexualities


Posts Tagged ‘hereditary sexualities’

Brother/Sister, Husband/Wife

Brother/Sister, Husband/Wife The story that I’ve found most compelling about the first half of Middlesex is that of the narrator’s grandparents, Lefty and Desdemona.  The tale of how their incestuous relationship arose is easily sympathized, their actions rendered justifiable by the circumstances from which they arose.  After all, they were two siblings, orphaned while they […]