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Beatriz (“Bea”) Aguilar
Penélope is the Aldayas’ young and sheltered daughter, who falls in love with Julián Carax (who is actually her half-brother, though neither know this) at first sight. While Carax’s search for her dominates his life, she always appears as a distant and ethereal girl with little characterization. After Mr. Aldaya finds out about her affair and resulting pregnancy, he locks her in her room and forces her to give birth unaided, after which she dies. Her gruesome death at her own father’s hands represents the brutal consequences of the male desire to completely possess the women they love. Like Bea, her counterpart in Daniel’s narrative, Penélope shares her name with a literary heroine, Odysseus’s enigmatic wife in the Greek epic The Odyssey.
Penélope Aldaya Quotes in The Shadow of the Wind
The The Shadow of the Wind quotes below are all either spoken by Penélope Aldaya or refer to Penélope Aldaya. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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City of Shadows: Chapter 31
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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Nuria Monfort: Chapter 5
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Fumero was very keen on movies and went to the cinema at least twice a week. It was in a cinema that he had understood that Penélope had been the love of his life. The rest, especially his mother, had been nothing but tarts.
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Nuria Monfort: Chapter 8
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The hatter…had no doubt that Penélope was that love in his son’s life. Without realizing it, he thought that if he helped him recover her, perhaps he, too, would recover some part of what he had lost, that void that weighed on his bones like a curse.
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Penélope Aldaya Quotes in The Shadow of the Wind
The The Shadow of the Wind quotes below are all either spoken by Penélope Aldaya or refer to Penélope Aldaya. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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City of Shadows: Chapter 31
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Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
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Nuria Monfort: Chapter 5
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Fumero was very keen on movies and went to the cinema at least twice a week. It was in a cinema that he had understood that Penélope had been the love of his life. The rest, especially his mother, had been nothing but tarts.
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Nuria Monfort: Chapter 8
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The hatter…had no doubt that Penélope was that love in his son’s life. Without realizing it, he thought that if he helped him recover her, perhaps he, too, would recover some part of what he had lost, that void that weighed on his bones like a curse.
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