Analysis of Lazarillo de Tormes Chapters 6 & 7

 

Analysis of LAZARILLO DE TORMES Chap6 & 7

 

SUMMARY CHAPTER 6 This is a short tratado in which Lázaro serves two masters. The first is a painter whom he mixes colours for. Although nothing much is said about him, according to lazaro he suffered with him as well. His second master is a chaplain who provides him a job as a water seller. This is his first real job and earns a good living through it .During the four years he served the chaplain he is able to earn enough to buy second hand clothes and an old sword. Lázaro abandons the work upon seeing himself dresses as an honourable man. CHAPTER 7 After leaving the chaplain he serves a constable but abandoned him due to the dangers involved with dealing with criminals. With the help of friends he finds himself an official as town crier. This involves announcing wine for sale accompanying criminal for punishment and broadcasting the ofence.Pleased with his achievement he says, Me ha sucedido tan bien, yo le he usado tan fácilmente, que casi  todas las cosas al oficio tocantes pasan por mi mano. Tanto, que, en toda la ciudad, el que ha de echar vino a vender, o algo, si Lázaro de Tormes no entiende en ello, hacen cuenta de no sacar provecho . After being noticed by the Archpriest he agrees to his offer of marrying his maid. There is rumour of an affair between the Archpriest and his wife after the two denied it, it is agreed between the three this issue will not be mentioned again .It is through this that we get to know what the ‘el caso’ mentioned mentioned in the prologue means, means, that is the rumour rumoured ed affair between his wife and the archpriest. For anyone that speaks on ‘el caso’ Lázaro cuts him off or threatens to kill him.

 

CHARACTERS Painter Chaplain; provides Lázaro his first real job, nothing is said about him Constable: Lázaro’s master, beaten by fugitives  fugitives   Archpriest: offers his maid in marriage Lázaro and helps him in many ways especially giving him food. He is rumoured to be having affair with Lázaro’s wi wife fe

THEMES Honour When Lázaro begins to dress honourable like the squire he feels proud and considers himself  abve the task of selling water in the street.The used clothes for him represented a new social category where he has has gain some some level of honour. honour. Fufilment Lázaro moves up the social ladder just as he wanted.He has an official job as a town criar which offers him good living. He fills all his toils and hardship in the past has paid off with this new status. Y con favor que tuve de amigos y señores, todos mis trabajos y fatigas hasta entonces pasados fueron pagados con alcanzar lo que procuré: que fue un oficio real, viendo que no hay nadie que medre, sino los que le tienen

STYLE Satire During the Golden age the clerics were rumoured to be having affair with their maids but in order to cover it up they married them off to others .Their husbands in turn receive favours from the clerics. Lazaro thus write to show that it really exists but the husbands do not have any option but to deny the affair. Ambiguity The ending of this novel is open because the reader has little knowledge of what happens to lazarillo in the end; whether he was able maintain his currently achieved status or not.” Pues

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este tiempo estaba en mi prosperidad y en la cumbre de toda buena fortuna, de lo que de aquí adelante me sucediera, avisaré a Vuestra Merced.” Because of the ambigious nature of the ending of the novel, further research reveals a sequel which according to critics was not written by the same author; and this part two ends with lazarillo becoming a pauper. Lazarillo successfully refrained from pointing a finger at the Archpriest for having an affair with lazarillo’s wife and to further establish the ambiguity, they decided not to talk about the situation (Caso) again in the house. “Hasta el día de hoy nunca nadie nos oyó sobre el caso; antes, cuando alguno siento que quiere decir algo de ella, le atajo y le digo”