The END

Saramago wraps the book up pretty much in a predicable way, but even saying that I won't give away the ending. Though this book was somewhat interesting it had it moments in which it got boring and lost my interest. The climax points of the book didn't even seem to capture my attention. It seemed the whole time that I read that a white blindness had taken my sight and forced me onwards without realizing truly what was happening. This blindness could have been because of the extravagant words that Saramago used throughout the book, or rather a topic and a voice that seemed all to calm. Along with the dialogs throughout Blindness being separated not by quotations rather just capital letter. But, when the word "I" appeared the meaning of the capital letter made no difference. Even though I seem to make this seem bad at times it made the story flow better other than when the word "I" or I'm" appeared within the talking. I would recommend this book for someone that has time to and enjoys, reading. But, for anyone who doesn't particularly enjoy reading I would say stay clear, for you would be boarded out of your mind if you can't continue reading. Even though I make this book seem terrible, it really isn't, and I said at the conclusion of reading the book that I wanted to read the other book in Saramago's somewhat two-part series, Seeing.

A very short, brief summary of the events leading up to the end of the book go somewhat like this: The doctor's wife, the doctor, the 1st blind man and his wife, the prostitute (normally referred to as the lady with the dark glasses), the man with the patch, the boy with the squint, and the 'dog of tears' arrive at the doctor's house. They take their clothes off and change into new ones. The following morninf it is raining and all three women bath in the rain and the men later bathe in the tub filled with rain water. Following that 1st blind man, his wife, and the doctor's wife go to the 1st blind man's house to find a man and his family have moved in after their house was overtaken. That man was a writer and was writing about his experiences as a blind man (by now the whole city, and it seems the whole country, if not the whole world, has gone blind except the doctor's wife). The doctor's wife reads what he has written and tells him that she can see and stayed at the asylum and he asks her if one day she will tell him her story. She says yes. The prostitute goes back to her place to find the lady on the 1sty floor dead. The doctor's wife, the prostitute, and the doctor bury her. The rest of the book is to near the end to give away what happens after this burial. Just to give one a hint, the doctor's wife finds two amazing/grotesque situations/events. Along with many other mysterious things.