The Gaze (novel)

[4] The novel consists of four separated, but coherent and interrelated parts that are split according to the place and the age where each independent story occurs.

Even though the narrator knows and feels that her parents love and care about her, she thinks that when she looks into their eyes, she sees the pain inside.

(P242 The Gaze) The narrator feels pain as she realises she is just an object observed by B-C. She starts eating like crazy again.

Efendi's wedding night is the turning point of his life; his beautiful but deaf and mute fiancée asks to leave due his expressionless eyes.

One day, Efendi is inspired that he will to gather as many people as possible to ease the pain of loneliness by building the cherry-colored tent that will be remembered forever.

Women come together in packs and enter the through the west door of the tent to see the ugliest being in the world, Sable-girl.

Madame de Marelle finds a large locked box containing a portrait of a handsome young man who becomes the object of her obsession.

After discovering the young man's portrait, Monsieur and the nurse abandon the beautiful girl in favor of the ugly boy.

A theater company comes to the village and one of the members sees the beautiful girl Annabelle who is dangling her legs in the river.