argument The Journal of an immigrant (1958) revolves around a young couple who migrates from Valladolid Valladolid Chile in the 60's. Lorenzo and Anita, twentysomething them, no need to spend in Spain, but it's encouraging them not native environment, so gray and dull it. In addition, she received a letter from his Uncle Giles, who lives in Santiago de Chile and encourages them to make the Americas. What is more, even offers to pay the passenger ship. After the classic tug of war, Lorenzo asks for leave in her work as an usher at a school and travels with his girlfriend, pregnant, America. He and she are convinced that their story will be successful, the end of the day, people say that the other side of the Atlantic are expected to amass a fortune and that even domestic service will have. Or, in pure and to paraphrase a popular phrase that in America everyone dogs tied with sausages. In short, things that would not have Internet in the 60.
Besides parallels between English emigrants and immigrants then we received today, what interested me most of the book is the machismo oozing the relationship between Lorenzo and Anita. know how Delibes wanted to portray a relationship or simply se limitaba a construir una relación de pareja con la realidad que lo rodeaba... Lo desconozco. En cualquier caso deja entrever los usos y costumbres del momento.
En el diario que escribre sobre el viaje, Lorenzo deja clara una idea: su trabajo vale más que el de Anita. ¿Por qué? Porque es hombre. Y punto. Su trabajo como recadero, ascensorista o gerente de un ineficiente salón de limpiabotas vale más que el de Anita como peinadora. Ya se sabe: los hombres trabajan para mantener a la familia y las mujeres, para entretenerse y sacar un dinerillo con que cubrir sus gastos.
De que me levanté me mostró el alijo de perfumes de allá. Lo que yo la dije, que ojo, pero ella me dio en los morros con un mazo tickets. Fifteen thousand of the wing, said soon. You have to touch the nose! This chick does a basis of sympathy and a little taste, like I say, because we are on today nobody gives silver comb. Of course there is also the nails and the potions. With one thing and another wrong is that the Kid is not removed for living expenses. And after all, his stuff is just entertainment, because, all things considered, this can not be called hustle.Anita visits the home of a few wealthy ladies and combs. Talented and diversified its business to a manicure, perfumes and other potions, so prosperous and after one week even considered opening a beauty salon your account. As often happens often among immigrants, women prosper faster and better than men. And, of course, for a macho earn less than their partner is an affront to his manhood. It is therefore time to hit the table with authority and patriarchal power demand.
I got a bad body and, as of tomorrow, I had a grab with the chick. The combing will bells and whistles, do not deny that I myself got together yesterday thirty tickets together, but there is the bus and you know that before God all the saints. So I planted it and she started calmly that it was not pod and if I prefer to be established is determined to do so. And said that neither jars, and she that what ton, who need hands to serve the parish and better paint well. Yet the temper I let go that it was his own as a hobby, but says very little for me to have my wife hustle, and put an establishment was as two quarters to the preacher and I have my pride and that there was nothing. The girl is atufó and I went with what stung me is that they thrive and I like the crab back, and I got angry and told him that eye, that there was wrong, but she insisted strongly that the uncle had said that was more capable than me and that was what made me angry, and I already got the jets from the basket and La Voce, second, that eye that as to compare the beat back a gloved hand that he would remember the date.It is interesting to see how Lawrence works as a character in its masculinity crisis. How the questioning or loss of privileges of the emerging patriarchy want to set, take it out of their boxes several times throughout the novel. Anita never hits, but, as when parents are anguished because their children topple the authority they believed they had inherited from their grandparents, Lorenzo loses its site, references, part of their identity. And both lost their place in the New World in the end convinces Anita to return to Valladolid.
Of course, it lacks a final hurdle: take disappointment pues El Dorado no ha sido tal. Si algo resulta duro para un emigrante, no es perder las raíces o vivir alejado de la familia; lo peor es regresar a casa y que tu relato sea el de un fracaso. Es más: ¿cómo eludir las mentiras que habías contado para justificar que tú tenías razón al moverte, y no quienes prefirieron quedarse en el pueblo?
Te pones a ver y el hombre no es más que un animal de costumbres, que ni se diferencia de la perdiz, ni nada. Y si yo les tuviera bien puestos pegaría media vuelta, ¡march!, y si te he visto no me acuerdo. Pero, lo que pasa. Uno cogió la pichicharra de América y les ha ido a los amiguetes con el cuento, que si hay perdices como escombro, y que si uno live like a duke, and go now to say that there is for what and who you become because the blues will not let you stop and because you have nowhere to fall down dead. The FETEN is that Anita and I, I, and Anita, we have been a disappointment órdago.
The spiritual enrichment is fine, but again with one hand in front and behind there seems little reason to question the place that you had assigned in the productive mechanism. However, Lawrence has learned to cook beans everywhere and nowhere to pay for sleep. Neither America nor in Spain.
Of course, what remains unclear is whether Lawrence has learned to respect his girl. Seems to be left the reader is another moral. Also that those who thrive outside their country, as Anita in Chile, and it is usually because it works, sometimes even to live with someone who undervalues \u200b\u200btheir work and giving off steam like a gloved hand and then. More of an immigrant woman knows the situation in Spain, right? Grande
Delibes, allowing us to speak of this with books of 58. Latest
Of course, what remains unclear is whether Lawrence has learned to respect his girl. Seems to be left the reader is another moral. Also that those who thrive outside their country, as Anita in Chile, and it is usually because it works, sometimes even to live with someone who undervalues \u200b\u200btheir work and giving off steam like a gloved hand and then. More of an immigrant woman knows the situation in Spain, right? Grande
Delibes, allowing us to speak of this with books of 58. Latest
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