According to Zora Neale Hurston:
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."
I kind of like to think about it as, for men, the dream is about the result. For women, the dream is about the process. Men are always watching for what time will bring while women just keep right on doing.
You can read and interpret for yourself. That's the fun of studying literature. :)
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Uh . . . what about the men on the ship(s)? Somebody is behind the scenes creating and building the objects and subjects of everyone's dreams. Now Spanish literature, like Don Quixote - that's where the real multiple-meaning, life-analyzing, male/female, object of desires STUFF is at! :)
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