![]() ![]() ![]() An undercurrent of artistic and romantic jealousy fuels Román and Juan’s fighting, since Román was once romantically involved with Gloria. The house is fraught with tension and fighting, often over old disagreements that have extended across many years. ![]() The household has fallen into disrepair, and is filled with cobwebs, dust, and piles of her grandmother’s fine furniture, which Gloria is selling off, piece-by-piece, to a local rag merchant. ![]() Upon moving in with her family, Andrea discovers that they’ve been forced to sell half of the home after her grandfather’s death, moving their belongings into a tight, cramped space. They include her Aunt Angustias, a tyrannical Catholic woman her Uncle Román, an eccentric, formerly renowned musician her Uncle Juan, a failed painter who abuses his beautiful young wife, Gloria and Gloria, a spirited young woman from a poor family, of whom Angustias disapproves. She moves in with estranged family members living in her formerly well-off (but now impoverished) grandmother’s apartment on Calle de Aribau. The novel begins with Andrea leaving a sleepy remote Spanish province to attend university, having learned that the Spanish government has given her a full scholarship. ![]()
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