Aura by Carlos Fuentes signifies the idea of magical realism, of which the fact that Felipe does not stress that something is strange or supernatural. The text focuses on Felipe and him entering into a dark, unknown realm. It is unsettling to us to see that Felipe walks in the space not bothered by all the spiritual and supernatural happenings that he may or may have not seen. In a sense, it makes us sit on edge of the face that the main character is not effected by such cases. With the magical realism touch, when the Felipe is not so worried, it ends to have us think more about what he just saw or what we just read. It creates the question of whether he’s been in such a situation before and why he is so used to these strange appearances of rats and cats. With the ending, it reveals that Felipe turns into Conseulo’s husband. It all makes sense towards the conclusion, maybe Felipe has already been through such occurrences enough that it does not phase his everyday activities. I found it very surprising at the end and I did not really understand why he had turned into Conseulo’s husband at first, but I realized that Felipe might have always been the husband by the way he reacted to strange events.
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