EYES OF BLUE DOG -GABREIL GARCIA

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                                                                  EYES OF BLUE DOG

                                                                        GABREIL GARCIA

The basic plot of ''Eyes of a Blue Dog'' follows the relationship between a man and a woman, but the setting is not at all what might be expected. The relationship takes place solely in the dream world; both people meet and interact while dreaming, never able to connect in their waking lives.

The phrase that forms the title, ''eyes of a blue dog'', is their mutually agreed upon signal to recognize each other while awake and living their separate lives. This aspect of the story fits the description of magical realism, as dreaming is an almost universal experience, and therefore a realistic setting.

However, lucid dreaming, or knowing that one is dreaming while in the dream world, is rather unusual. The man and woman in ''Eyes of a Blue Dog'' discuss in their dream encounters the fact that they use the odd phrase to attempt to find one another when awake. The woman writes the phrase in places all over town while the man can't recall the signal phrase when he awakes. And during their dream conversations, the woman can't remember where she wrote the phrase in order to tell the man where to look when he is awake.

Remember that a blurring of reality and fantasy (in this case, the dream world) is a fundamental quality of magical realism. Both characters are aware of the tie between waking and dreaming; the woman says she worries that someone else is dreaming about her dream room and ''revealing all her secrets.'' They mention many aspects of waking life, including the effect of outside happenings like hearing a spoon falling or feeling the sheet fall off.

Details in the Dream Setting

Another characteristic of this tale placing it in the magical realism genre lies in the details of the dream setting. Ordinary objects like a cigarette, a lamp, and a mirror take on particular significance as the two characters interact. The lamp seems to be a sort of barrier between two spaces, each space the designated dream space of either the man or the woman. Both see the lamp and its glow, but can't seem to move past it. They want to touch, but can never do so in the dream. Yet the man is able to pass a cigarette to the woman through the lamp barrier.

The woman's space contains a mirror, and they both can see her reflection in it. The appearance of the wall of the room is also described as a mirror by the man, conflating the two objects as both reflecting surfaces and distance between the people: '''I see you,' I told her. And on the wall I saw what was as if she had raised her eyes and had seen me with my back turned toward her from the chair, in the depths of the mirror, my face turned toward the wall

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