The Good Conscience (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late 1920’s to the mid-1940’s
- Setting: Guanajuato, Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Class conflict, Religion, 1920’s, 1930’s, Mexico or Mexicans, Priests
- Locales: Mexico
Characters Discussed
Jaime Ceballos (HI-meh seh- BAH-yohs), a boy brought up in the household of his aunt and uncle in the provincial Mexican city of Guanajuato. Rebelling against their tight-lipped upper-middle-class conformity, Jaime seeks a deeper, more personal experience of Catholicism than is offered by his family’s conventional piety and begins to develop intellectual curiosity and a social conscience. He is, however, unable to put his principles into action. Notably in late adolescence, when he comes across his mother—long removed from the family because of her...
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