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Ruby Slippers 

Some people like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz think ruby slippers can make any of your worries and fears dissolve and disappear for ever.  This short yet through story is quite good in East, West, the story is called “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers”.  In the story Salman Rushdie pours out a lot of emotion about his ex lover Gale and how fiction can be dangerous.  There is love in this story, passion, hopefulness, desperation, realization and growth. 

There is hope in his way of writing  “I might even click the heels together three times, and win back her heart by murmuring in soft reminder of our wasted love, there’s no place like home”  in the hopes that he will win Gale’s heart back by buying the ruby slippers from the auction house to give them to gale (95).  His hopes were a mere click of his heels and they would be in love and happy again, to bad he is dreaming of his fiction. 

At one point everything has a price but usually reality kicks into your fantasy fiction and stops you from selling the farm. Even though Solman hung onto and fought for the thoughts and memories of Gale, he so badly wanted her back and was willing to pay a hefty price for love.  In the final moments of the auction he came to his senses and dropped out of the biding war.  The next day “when I awoke I felt refreshed and free”  this was a  healing  process for Salman to end his sorrows for gale and move on with his life.

This passage seems to serve as a written scar of things that can be and should be. It is not a scar that looks bad but just a reminder not get too caught up in your own fiction. It was a self prescription for growth from the past, so that he along with many others who read this can have a different perspective on this thing called - life’s story

 As you can see he has move on...