How do the priest and Luisa’s other relatives respond to don Apolonio’srequest to marry her? How does Luisa herself react? Why does she agree to do it?

What will be an ideal response?



  • The others see it as an act of generosity that she deserves, and they feel that it would be churlish and ungrateful of her to refuse. Her own reaction is to stifle “a cry of horror” (par. 42) and to be “overcome by nausea” (par. 58). Though strongly opposed to the idea—revolted by it, in fact—she seems to acquiesce because of the pressure put on her by everyone else’s expectation of what her response should be.

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