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A 7 page paper which provides general characteristics, compares with other novels, makes observations about and summarizes the story and its themes, considers the use of language, how it relates to Don Quixote Part I (Chapter 52) and Part II (Chapters 73-74), examines how the story represents closure, what Cervantes is trying to say, the moral of the story and its purpose. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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possibilities of moral fables, but never took such a high road that he could not see the entertainment value of these tales. He perceived his readers to be much
like the writer himself - dreamers who believed that anything imagined could come true. If Alonso Quixano thought he was fighting a creature instead of a windmill, it could
be so! But Cervantes was also acutely aware of the fine line between fantasy and reality, a line he frequently blurred in his stories to force readers to question
the validity of what they just read. This is readily apparent in his masterpiece, Don Quixote de la Mancha, and in his collection, Exemplary Stories. Each of the
stories in this volume represents individual threads that are interwoven to comprise a singular literary tapestry. One of the most entertaining vignettes in Exemplary Stories is the next-to-last tale entitled,
"El Casamiento Enganoso" ("The Deceitful Marriage"), which is a satire about one-upmanship. As Cervantes demonstrates, if one engages in dishonesty and trickery, it is difficult for him to complain
or demand sympathy when the same tactics are used against him. It also forces the reader to take a stand: Can the story told by a self-admitted liar be
accepted as the truth, no matter how fantastic it might sound? Ensign Campuzano, an artist and soldier who has been undergoing treatment for syphilis and is about to be
released from the Hospital of the Insurrection, happens to cross paths with an old lawyer friend, Licentiate Peralta (Echevarria 15). He tells him a fantastic tale of hard luck
involving his marriage to Dona Estefania de Caicedo, a woman he believed to be an aristocrat and owner of a large estate only to find that she was merely impersonating
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