Aunt Angustias is sternly religious, determined to maintain the standards of the past, and insists that Andrea must obey her in all things. Grandmother is very old and frail, and her mind is beginning to fail. The house is old, run-down, dirty and over-stuffed with furniture and trinkets, relics of when the family owned the whole house, before they had to divide it into two and sell the other half. When she arrives at her grandmother’s house in the middle of the night, she discovers the family is no longer wealthy – quite the reverse. Now she is an orphan, existing on a tiny stipend granted to her by the state to enable her to study. She is enthralled at the idea of Barcelona, having only childish memories of earlier visits to her then wealthy relatives. The Civil War is over but Spain is still suffering its after-effects when Andrea comes to Barcelona from her provincial home to study literature at the University.
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