He asks Guido to do something about it, while his mother fusses over him. He continues the conversation with his father as he helps him into his grave. His mother then kisses him, first on both cheeks, then passionately on the mouth. He struggles to pull away and then finds himself pulling away from his wife.
In this sequence, Guido is Oedipus. His killing of his father is remarkably easy: he simply lends him a hand as the father climbs down into the earth. He sees his mother as an attractive (though matronly) woman, but he has to ask if she is his mother. The passionate kiss seems to be initiated by her, rather than rising from his own desire, but, as this is supposed to be Guido's personal fantasy, turning his desire into his own may make the situation easier to face. She transforms, mid-kiss, into his wife, but the wife in the fantasy is much warmer and more forgiving than the woman he turns out to be married to. Like his mother, she smiles at him and regards him with some combination of love and desire, just as he wishes all women would do. (
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