Cursed Bunny: Stories

Content Warning: This section of the guide features discussion of gender discrimination, child abuse, rape, incest, child loss, and abortion.

The woman haunted by the eponymous head in the toilet is the protagonist of “The Head.” She begins the story as an office worker living in her childhood home with her family. The story spans the rest of her adult life, however, following her into her marriage, where she becomes the mother of one daughter. The woman quits her job when the head starts appearing in her office toilet. Since she is out of work, her family suggests that she get married. The story ends when the woman is entering old age.

The woman is characterized by her obstinance. She is not easily cowed by the head’s insistence that she is its mother, and she consistently refuses this role throughout the story. To stop the head from forming, she refuses to use the toilet. The woman thus experiences long-term constipation and inflammation. She also makes multiple attempts to dispose of the head, which are thwarted by her family members.

When the head finally emerges as a fully formed body that resembles the woman in her younger years, the woman challenges the head’s insistence that she belongs in the toilet.