Aura by Carlos Fuentes

The book Aura really surprised me because I didn't expect a second person address being the reader and the first person narrator being Felipe Montero. I think Carlos Fuentes choose this style in the book in order to really connect the reader to Felipe. As the reader reads about Felipe's time with Aura and Señora Consuelo the point of view would change in the book and the reader would become Felipe. This connection between the reader and Felipe lessen the tensions of Felipe working for an old women in a dark house with crying cats outside the windows. The reader being Felipe in some parts of the book allows the reader to know that Felipe is not scared of the gothic surroundings, therefore the reader feels that there is no tension in the book. The magical realism used in the book leaves the reader questioning whether Aura is really Señora Consuelo because as Felipe did not act surprised nor devastated to see Señora Consuelo in bed with him rather than Aura at the end of the book. Regardless, the magical realism used in the book allows the reader to not think of gothic as horror or supernatural but to think of it as normal.