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Hairball Kat Character Analysis

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Kat has built her imaginary world depending on the ovarian cyst to run away from reality. First, after Kat’s undergoing a surgery and taking the ovarian cyst home, she stores it in formaldehyde on her mantelpiece. “The cyst turned out to be a benign tumor’. Kat liked that use of benign“as if the thing had a soul and wished her well” (31).Kat‘s taking home the hairball and naming it showed the unfairness in throwing out the hairball and how it would be lonely and sad which reflects on Kat’s personality. Kat was as lonely as the hairball, so she makes Hairball her companion. It becomes the one that understands and consoles her in her pain. Second, she humanizes her cyst by naming it “Hairball”, giving it human characteristics andfantasizes that
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