The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Part 4, Chapter 22 Summary & Analysis

When Tereza and Tomas were in the first year of their relationship, Tereza used to scream during sex. She had wanted to overcome her senses and become blind and deaf. She doesn’t scream anymore, but her soul had indeed been “blinded by love.” Tereza’s afternoon with the tall stranger has made her soul see again. Thinking about that day, she doesn’t think about the stranger—she hardly remembers him, in fact—but rather, she thinks about herself. She longs to see her own body again close to another, and she secretly wishes the tall stranger would come into the bar where she works.