![]() ![]() She is married to Don Alfonso, a jealous man more than twice her age. In short, his mother sees to it that he receives an education calculated to repress all his natural instincts and keeps the facts of life from him.Īmong Donna Inez's friends is Donna Julia, a beautiful, intelligent young woman with Moorish blood in her veins. His education is to a certain degree impractical, for he is taught nothing about life and studies the classics from expurgated editions. He is taught riding, fencing, gunnery, how to scale a fortress, languages, sciences, and arts. But before the situation can reach a critical point, Don Jose dies.ĭonna Inez makes herself responsible for the supervision of Don Juan's education. Their friends and relatives try to no avail to bring about a reconciliation their lawyers recommend a divorce. She also keeps a diary in which she notes all his faults and even searches through his trunks of books and letters looking for evidence to use against him. Donna Inez, with the help of druggists and doctors, tries to prove that her husband is mad. ![]() Consequently, there are quarrels between the two. As his wife is rigidly virtuous and as he is incautious by nature, he is forever getting into scrapes. ![]() Don José has no love for learning or the learned and has a roving eye. ![]() She has a smattering of Greek, Latin, French, English, and Hebrew. Donna Inez is learned and has a good memory. The author begins by saying that since his own age cannot supply a suitable hero for his poem, he will use an old friend, Don Juan. ![]()
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