We all have different views of what a family might be, typically a mom dad brother sister etc. but in The Gilda Stories Gomez uses vampires to create a different kind of family. Gilda is trying to fill the niche roles of a family by turning select humans into vampires. She is doing because she feels lonely after bird leaves. This idea of searching for a family leads to scene where Gilda enter Julius’s apartment. Gilda says to Julius “I want you to see the family I bring you into. It’s a family I’ve belonged to for more than one hundred years, yet I’ve been alone, too.”Gilda knows he is also alone and I think that this aspect is the good we see in her because she finds someone who is lonely and without a family.
When Gilda exchanges their blood he is turned in a vampire. The sharing of blood is the bond they now have. I think changing Julius was selfish because she did it mostly for herself and even though she explained to him what was going to happen, she was very persuasive and took advantage of him. Once you are changed you can’t go back to human. At the same time she had thought this through, like I said he too was alone and had no one and now they have each other. She may think that giving Julius new life was good. This new life does not justify the times she had killed.
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