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Same-Sex Relationships In Nada

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2. Discuss Laforet’s portrayal of opposite-sex and same-sex relationships in the novel Nada. Do you agree that the author depicts same-sex friendship as a socially acceptable alternative to restrictive or damaging heterosexual relationships? I do agree that the author depicts same-sex friendship as a socially acceptable alternative to restrictive or damaging heterosexual relationships… The Novel ‘Nada Samuel Amago argues that that the author depicts same-sex friendship as a socially acceptable alternative to restrictive or damaging heterosexual relationships, and it is clear from the start of the novel that what the protagonist Andrea really wants the most is freedom, which at the time in Franco Spain, was not easily achieved by a woman. Women would stay with …show more content…

Andrea on the other hand never expresses such dreams, not even with Ena, which seems to be the one person in the book that Andrea truly loves. In the start she dreams about coming to Barcelona, and experiencing freedom, but that dream is soon crushed as she enters the house in calle de Aribau, and it becomes more evident the further in the chapter one we get, that this is not going to be how Andrea expected, and that her freedom will be very limited. The chapter ends with a warning of what there is to expect: ‘Creo que estuve temblando de indefinibles terrors cuando apaqué la vela’ The same sex relationship with Ena is used in such a way, that it allows Andrea to escape the confinement of calle de Aribau, she feels liberated when she is around her, and is able to forget the dark house with all its habitants. However Andrea also have friends of the opposite sex, and even though she is confined to make them coffee and sandwiches, she is as she sais:

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