Discuss the role of science in the exploration of unknown cultures as it relates to this story. Is Marcel Pretre’s exploration a scientific one?

How do you interpret Little Flower’s love toward the explorer? What does it mean when the narrator writes that “having no other resources, she was reduced to profundity” (171)?

Do you think that Little Flower can be understood as a feminist figure? How is Clarice Lispector’s work proto-feminist, as it has been described by scholars?