OMG, he was just asking an explanation because he hasn't already read the novel!
Don Corrado, I'm afraid the book doesn't tell anything about, because it was written much earlier than GFIII was filmed.

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)