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        <title><![CDATA[I assume you are referring to the book by Eugenides?
Middlesex is the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/middlesex/q-and-a/what-was-title-middlesex-named-104255</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I assume you are referring to the book by Eugenides?
Middlesex is the name of the road in Grosse Point that the family moves to following the race riots in Detroit.  In addition, in the context of the book, it also refers to the fact that Cal/Callie is both male and female (hence being middlesexed.)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:25:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What was the title "Middlesex" named for?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What was the title "Middlesex" named for?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:58:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When do Lina and Jimmy get married?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/middlesex/q-and-a/when-do-lina-jimmy-get-married-37075</link>
        <description><![CDATA[When do Lina and Jimmy get married?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:54:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ok I am an idiot I asked the question before I finished the last...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ok I am an idiot I asked the question before I finished the last chapter..DUH..sorry as I have the answer, she is still alive...LOL? Thx&#160;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 16:50:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To respond to my own question as that is not what I originally asked and...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/middlesex/q-and-a/middlesexwhathappened-desderoma-did-miss-something-24435</link>
        <description><![CDATA[To respond to my own question as that is not what I originally asked and I am curious as to how the question got reworded. I know why Desderoma took to her bed and the reasoning behind it. WhatI asked is what eventually happened to her as Cal doesn't reference her after, am I to assume that she died. Did I miss it..]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 15:22:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Desdemona is an interesting character who is deeply superstitious and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Desdemona is an interesting character who is deeply superstitious and riddled by guilt for having married her brother, Lefty.  She also is almost hilariously dramatic when things go wrong, as evidenced by her habit of fanning herself with &quot;six atrocity fans&quot; when agitated.  Throughout her life, Desdemona tries to stop the bad luck she believes she inflicted upon her family through her sin of incest, even to the point of having...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 14:56:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happened to Desdemona in &quot;Middlesex&quot;? Why did she take to...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/middlesex/q-and-a/middlesexwhathappened-desderoma-did-miss-something-24435</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What happened to Desdemona in &quot;Middlesex&quot;? Why did she take to her bed for 10 years after Lefty died?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 11:21:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes, Baker and Inglis is the name of the school. The author Jeffrey...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes, Baker and Inglis is the name of the school. The author Jeffrey Eugenides may have taken the name from a well-known Latin text written by Baker and Inglis. There is no evidence that a girls school with this name existed.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:52:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Middlesex, is Baker and Inglis where Milton sends Cal to keep from...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Middlesex, is Baker and Inglis where Milton sends Cal to keep from busing?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:01:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Milton had always wanted a girl.  Due to a chromosomal error, his...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/middlesex/q-and-a/what-meaning-sentence-quot-mulberry-tree-had-no-10853</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Milton had always wanted a girl.  Due to a chromosomal error, his daughter, Calliope, was born a hermaphrodite.  Now Milton is dead and his daughter has chosen to live out her life as a boy.  The mulberry tree is barren, like Cal and her/his father's dreams.Or, perhaps the author just mentions the tree's leaflessness to emphasize the wintry scene of Milton's funeral.  Two paragraphs previously he describes the willows as being bare as...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:28:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the meaning of the sentence &quot;The Mulberry tree had no...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the meaning of the sentence &quot;The Mulberry tree had no leaves&quot; in the last paragraph of Middlesex? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:25:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Eugenides wrote this to a reader who asked the same question:  “the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/middlesex/q-and-a/did-miss-was-never-explained-why-cal-s-brother-5987</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Eugenides wrote this to a reader who asked the same question:  “the narrator of Middlesex, never refers to Chapter Eleven by his given name. Neither does anyone in the book. The nickname...is bestowed on Cal's brother by Cal himself, retroactively, in the act of writing the book....His &quot;given name&quot; is something I didn't give the reader.As for the meaning of the nickname, that's another story. The character of Chapter Eleven is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:51:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cal's brother is indeed referred to as &quot;Chapter 11&quot;.  He...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cal's brother is indeed referred to as &quot;Chapter 11&quot;.  He does not have another name in the book. The term &quot;Chapter 11&quot; refers to the chapter in the United States Bankruptcy Code by which businesses can file for bankruptcy while remaining in business by submitting to reorganization of their debts under the supervision of the courts. In general conversation, the term &quot;Chapter 11&quot; is sometimes used as a euphemism...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:19:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Middlesex, is Cal's brother referred to as &quot;Chapter 11&quot;?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Middlesex, is Cal's brother referred to as &quot;Chapter 11&quot;? Does he have another name?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:51:04 PST</pubDate>
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