The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Characters
Cesar and Nestor Castillo are the two central characters of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. At first they appear to be opposites. Cesar is confident and worldly, and Nestor is sensitive and withdrawn. However, both are driven to destructive treatment of women by their own psychological flaws. Furthermore, Hijuelos gradually reveals that both are haunted by recollections of a troubling past that they can never reclaim and make right. A Castillo man, Hijuelos writes, was prone to moments when "melancholia abruptly came over him and he would suffer from his own plague of...
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