"The Doll Queen', by Carlos Fuentes, is a story that needs to be analyzed at more than just a literal front. The story contains elements of deceit, magic, and reminiscing that together tie the reader up into a bundle of knots confusing the plot and longing for details. In fact, one wonders if the writer had any specific intention in writing this story, or rather wrote it strictly to get the audience to think.
The plot begins by informing the reader of the protagonist and setting up the stage for the story. Carlos is cleaning out his residence and finds an old card with a drawing on it in a book. He then tells us that it is the map from the park to Amilamia's house and the text "Amilamia will not forget her good friend - com see me here wher I draw it-. Amilamia is a little girl of whom he was quite fond and often used to play with her in the park. Though he was fourteen and she was seven, they had a special relationship and one feels a little aghast in his ever occurring vivid memory of her flowered panties, "Amilamia frozen in her flight down the hill, her white skirt ballooning, the flowered panties gathered on her legs with elastic - One suspects that his feelings for her are probably greater than that of a friend or a mentor. He next begins to recall his introduction to her when she introduces herself to him at the park bench reading literature. "I like to remember her, afternoon after afternoon, in a succession of images that in their totality sum up the complete Amilamia,"" this illustrates his comprehensive recollection of her and her actions. He describes how she is mature for her age and almost too much so because her moments of spontaneity seem nearly rehearsed; "Amilamia's seriousness was, rather, a gift of nature, whereas her moments of spontaneity, by contrast, seemeded artificial."" Her blue checkered apron is a symbol repeated in the story as it seems to embody what she has and later it alludes to her existence.
