Summary of the story “Wedding Dance” by Amador T.

Daguio

The story is all about the couple who got separated for the husband’s
wife(Lumnay) has no capacity to provide child for her husband (Awiyao).

Awiyao was ethically obliged to marry another woman (Madulimay) for the
reason that people in that certain community with shared laws, traditions, and values
demands it. He was being lampooned for the fact of having no child. During their
conversation I can feel that there is agony because of a very strong emotional
attachment but left no choice because they need to follow the rules of their society.

The story is an expression of strong grief and unhappiness. Numerous

lines which represses its real content behind manifest content. There is a repressed
feeling when Awiyao said to Lumnay that he returned simply because he did not see her
in the wedding. But in the scene, it was very clear that he really longed to see Lumnay,
to see her once more. Moreover, Awiyao just said comforting thoughts to Lumnay like
“Why don’t you go out and join the dancing women?” to lessen his conscience about the
situation they were in. Displacement is also present when she diverted her attention to
the beans instead of her husband’s wedding. There is also a condensation when
Lumnay saw Awiyao that moment, and their blissful moments together were brought
back. Psychoanalytic criticism embraces the methods of reading and interpreting
employed by Freud, Adler, Jung, Lacan (well-known psychoanalytic thinkers). It
discusses the literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and
anxieties of the author, that a literary work is the real life experience of (unresolved
emotions, psychological conflicts, guilts, ambivalences, and so forth) told and wrote
symbolically.

Having a research about the faith of Amador Daguio’s wife this is somewhat
synonymous lumnay’s situation that could not bear child. This drama of Awiyao and
Lumnay could somewhat be the real drama of his life. The author is trying to rebuild his
situation throughout his literary writings. That’s why we have to understand
sympathetically whom the author was and how their mind created such works.

Lastly, the characters’ behavior is also predisposed by suppressed longings or

struggles among the id, ego, and superego. Indeed, The Wedding Dance of Amador
Daguio inculcates an undisputable fact, whether it is driven by id, ego, or superego,
when it comes to love, pain will be there, pain is totally inescapable.