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Analysis Of Torn Lace By Emilia Pardo Bazan

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The short stories from the Mediterranean were very interesting and gave me a more cultural awareness about the time periods. The short story I gravitated toward the most is “Torn Lace” by Emilia Pardo Bazan for she expresses her feminist worldview over a verity of topics. In this particular short story, she expresses that women do not necessarily need to marry to be considered a successful woman. However, Bazan does convey the importance of friendship and community among women. For example, in middle of the story the main character states, “Nothing facilitates friendship like resort life, Miss Aránguiz became such a close friend of mine that one afternoon, on the way to church, she revealed her secret to me…”. The short story expresses the

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