Queen of Spades-Study notes

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His dreams seem thwarted when he frightens her to death before she can reveal it, but he is then visited by her ghost, who orders him to marry the girl and play the cards exactly. The countess has the last laugh however when the final card turns out to be not the promised ace, but a winking Queen of Spades, which drives Hermann mad and sends the ward into a dull marriage to "a very amiable young man in the service of the state...
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Over the years Hermann's passion and shame has been read as a masked response to Tchaikovsky's homosexuality. But as Dungan notes, homosexuality was less socially taboo in nineteenth century Russian high society than might be presumed, and it is more likely that his empathy was rooted by a simple sense of connection with the soul of a fellow gambler...
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