Summary: There is a new event happening in the Rivera's home; the arrival of Trotsky; the creator of the Russian army and the man who had made the October Revolution, the companion of Lenin. Rivera and Trotsky were obsessive workers, but with the little time they had for social life the Trotsky and the Rivera couple went on picnics and excursions. No matter how well Trotsky knew a person he kept his distance, but Diego and Frida were a couple who could visit him anytime no questions asked. Trotsky was a vigorous man interested in sex, he became very animated around women, his opportunities were few but his success may have been considerable. Trotsky's reputation as a revolutionary hero, and his manners attracted Frida. She hardly needed to do anythinh because her physical features at the age of 29 did enough. Soon she began having and affair with Trotsky, he would slip notes into books he "recommended" to her and they would meet on a house in Aguayo Street, Mexico.
The affair soon ended and it is inferred that Frida had ended it, because Trotsky wrote a letter to his wife on how she was his one and only. his faithful, one true love, and victim. Then again, he also wrote Frida a nine page letter telling her how much she meant to him. Frida thought the letter was beautiful, and event though she was tired of him, they began to have an affair again. However, not as passionate as before where the word love would pop up frequently in their conversations. The affair ended once again, and Frida resumed her passionate ways with Diego. She as well got back on track with her painting.
Early, in October Frida left to New York for one of her shows of her paintings. According to Frida, the exaggerates the happenings of the day. She said it was a sold out show, but really about half the paintings were sold. Concluding that during this time the Depression was going on, it was quite good. In her times of travel Frida wrote plenty of letters to keep her fellow friends informed. Her writings and drawings seemed to give Frida a sort of realism. A realism in the way she saw true reality from her perspective not as the world saw it.
Quote: "It was a plea the kind of plea that a young lover at the age of seventeen would make to somebody he loves, instead of a man in his sixties" (Herrera 212).
When I first read this sentence and noticed it said plea, I thought of plea bargain, the type that is most common in courts when someone is convicted and they choose to plea bargain to get a less penalty. Then I connected that to the situation and it kind of fits in, in the sense that he was pretty much begging her to take him back and not give him the penalty of not having her. As if trying to convince Frida, he does not deserve to be without her since he liked her so much. Also, I find it quite disturbing that she is only 29 and he is 60 he could be her father. This quote also brought me back to thinking about Diego's infidelity with Frida, it seems like Diego and Frida had a childish kind of love, they kept cheating on each other. Maybe that was what made them some compatible for each other, but to me it is sort of awkward.
Reaction: My reaction to the above quote is that I find this quote to be quite contradictory as I made a text to world connection, in our era adults seem to say that teenagers do not fall in love that it is just infatuation. What Frida and Trotsky had was infatuation, in fact while I was reading that is what it says. Therefore, I have a question as to, Why does the author refer to it as a love story when it was not love? Also, Why does the author mention teenage love when others say there is not a teenage love? Also, as I looked through the pictures and drawings I already knew most of them portrayed Frida's life, and one is about Frida and Diego divorcing. Does this mean he found out about Frida's infidelities or the she just could not take that "panzon" anymore? Frida's life seems to be quite surreal, and I will have to keep reading more to understand her ways.
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