The Two Elenas (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: Mexico City
- Principal Characters: Victor, Elena, Dona Elena, Don Jose
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Culture, Family or family life, Liberalism, Lifestyles, Mexico or Mexicans
- Locales: Mexico City, Mexico
The Story
Dona Elena's complaint regarding the conduct of her daughter, Elena, the previous Sunday (she defended the idea that a woman can live with two men) causes Victor, an architect, to recall the night that he and Elena, his wife, saw the film Jules and Jim (1962). That night over dinner, as he recalls, they discussed the film and Elena arrived at certain conclusions—for example, that misogyny is the condition of love, that one day Victor would want another man to share their lives, and that she wanted an outfit like the one worn by Jeanne Moreau in the film. As...
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