What Does Narcissus Mean

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Narcissus is a story about a man that every woman wants due to his beauty, but he accepts no one. Echo is a nymph who also loves him, but she was cursed by Hera because she thinks that she was a lover of Zeus,she made it so she could repeat what others have said. Narcissus also got cursed by the gods to not love anyone but himself, he went over a clear pool and saw his reflection and fell in loved with it, he never left the pool until he died and Echo not being able to speak could not save him. Hera said, “You will always have the last word”(91).She says this to Echo when she cursed her which made her not able to save him. Echo says “Farewell-farewell,”(92) Those were her last words to Narcissus since she can only repeat what people have spoken