The Nun (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
- First Published: 1868
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1768
- Setting: Granada, Spain
- Principal Characters: Sister Isabel de Los Angeles, Dowager Countess de Santos, Carlos, Count de Santos
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Tradition, Inheritance or succession, Pretensions, Spain or Spanish people, Convents or nunneries, Nobility
- Locales: Granada, Spain
The Story
The story begins with a description of three people in a sitting room of a manorial house in Granada in March of 1768. A mature woman of noble bearing sits near one of the balconies, watching a pale, sickly child playing on the floor. The little boy is dressed as an elegant little gentleman. In one corner near a window, a beautiful nun of about thirty sits staring toward the sky. Next, the narrator identifies the characters and reveals their family history. The widowed Dowager Countess de Santos had not obeyed the spirit of her father-in-law's will, which stipulated...
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