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* GoingCommando: Estefania does this often. She is completely [[ShamelessFanServiceGirl shameless]] about bending over and revealing her derriére to an entire audience at a coronation ball.
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* ExcrementStatement: Abby, Isabel's paternal grandmother, dislikes UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} and everything Spanish, regarding that nation as "the most backward country on earth". In her own words:
-->"If I ever travel to Europe, the only reason I would visit that country would be to relieve myself, and then I'd leave."
* GoingCommando:Estefania Estefanía does this often. She is completely [[ShamelessFanServiceGirl shameless]] about bending over and revealing her derriére to an entire audience at a coronation ball.
-->"If I ever travel to Europe, the only reason I would visit that country would be to relieve myself, and then I'd leave."
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* IfICantHaveYou: Doña Ermelinda, after Rebecca tries to embarrass her in public by knocking off the former's turban off her head, refuses to allow her daughter Esmeralda marry Rebecca's son Ignacio. During Esmeralda's wedding night to Ernesto, Ignacio he gets ahold of a gun and shoots at the door of the house they are staying. The bullet ends up [[{{Main/Fingore}} damaging her hand and requiring an amputation of her finger]]. She is forced to abandon her aspiration to become a fashion designer.
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* IfICantHaveYou: Doña Ermelinda, after Rebecca tries to embarrass her in public by knocking off the former's turban off her head, refuses to allow her daughter Esmeralda marry Rebecca's son Ignacio. During Esmeralda's wedding night to Ernesto, Ignacio he gets ahold of a gun and shoots at the door of the house they are staying. The bullet ends up [[{{Main/Fingore}} damaging her hand and requiring an amputation of her finger]]. She is forced to abandon her aspiration to become a fashion designer.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: André, the Russian ballet instructor, and Estefania Volmer. Never mind that he is married. He is driven away from town in disgrace after their romance is revealed during the recital.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: André, the Russian ballet instructor, and Estefania Estefanía Volmer. Never mind that he is married. He is driven away from town in disgrace after their romance is revealed during the recital.
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* BlemishedBeauty: Isabel's cousin Margarita comes home to live and care for Isabel's son, Manuel. Margarita is beautiful but a large birthmark on her face mars her beauty. Isabel's husband Quintín thinks Margarita should get the mole removed so that their [[InsaneTrollLogic son does not grow up taking ugliness for granted]]. At first Margarita is reluctant because she feels the mole brings her good luck, but finally agrees. Sadly, she dies shortly after the surgery.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: André, the Russian ballet instructor, and Estefania Volmer. Never mind that he is married.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: André, the Russian ballet instructor, and Estefania Volmer. Never mind that he is married. He is driven away from town in disgrace after their romance is revealed during the recital.
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* GoingCommando: Estefania does this often. She is completely [[ShamelessFanServiceGirl shameless]] about bending over and revealing her derriere to an entire audience at a coronation ball.
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* GoingCommando: Estefania does this often. She is completely [[ShamelessFanServiceGirl shameless]] about bending over and revealing her derriere derriére to an entire audience at a coronation ball.
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* LetThePastBurn: The novel ends with Manuel staring into the house on the lagoon burning down.
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** A nameless young boy with a crush on Isabel. Quintin gives him a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown]] and he dies by suicide later on.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Whenever a Mendizabal daughter has a baby, she must have a nanny. These nannies and additional posts are filled by members of Petra's family.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Whenever a Mendizabal daughter has a baby, she must have a nanny. These nannies and additional posts are filled by members of Petra's family.
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** A nameless young boy with a crush on Isabel. Quintin gives him a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown]] NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and he dies by suicide later on.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Whenever aMendizabal Mendizábal daughter has a baby, she must have a nanny. These nannies and additional posts are filled by members of Petra's family.
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* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Manuel starts participating in pro-independence activities to please his girlfriend. He ends up joining an extremist group of nationalists called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast AK-47]]. This enrages his father, the statehood supporter Quintin, to the point he revises his will so that Manuel will not get any of his money.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Straight with Rebecca, who spoils Ignacio and her daughters in comparison to Quintin. Deliberately averted with Isabel, who treats both her biological son and her adopted son equally.
* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Manuel starts participating in pro-independence activities to please his girlfriend. He ends up joining an extremist group of nationalists called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast AK-47]]. This enrages his father, thestatehood supporter statehood-supporting Quintin, to the point he revises his will so that Manuel will not get any of his money.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Both spouses. Isabel has been writing the family's history (both on her side and Quintin's). Quintin is incensed her point of view and adds notes with his own version of events.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Both spouses. Isabel has been writing the family's history (both on her side and Quintin's). Quintin is incensed at her point of view and adds notes with his own version of events.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Rebecca decides to present a version of the dance of the seven veils to her group of artist friends. When her husband spots her dancing half-naked, she beats her severely and imposes a tyrannical regime in the house, making everybody take a cold shower each morning and attend mass every day. He also forces Rebecca to abandon her artistic aspirations.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Rebecca decides to present a version of the dance of the seven veils to her group of artist friends. When her husband spots her dancing half-naked, she he beats her severely and imposes a tyrannical regime in the house, making everybody take a cold shower each morning and attend mass every day. He also forces Rebecca to abandon her artistic aspirations.
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* ImpoverishedPatricians: Juan and [[UpperClassEquestrian Calixto]] are members of Spanish nobility. By marrying the Mendizabal daughters, they are able to become the IdleRich.
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* ImpoverishedPatricians: ImAManICantHelpIt: How Quintin explains away having sex with Carmelina in a situation that at best involves QuestionableConsent.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Juan and [[UpperClassEquestrian Calixto]] are members of Spanishnobility.nobility but their families' fortune has dwindled by a lot. By marrying the Mendizabal daughters, they are able to become the IdleRich.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Juan and [[UpperClassEquestrian Calixto]] are members of Spanish
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* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Manuel starts participating in pro-independence activities to please his girlfriend. He ends up joining an extremist group of nationalists called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast AK-47]]. This enrages his father, the statehood supporter Quintin, to the point he revises his will so that Manuel will not get any of his money.
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** A nameless young boy with a crush on Isabel. Quintin gives him a CurbStompBeatdown and he dies by suicide later on.
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It is the story of the family that built the house referred to in the title (three houses, to be exact). Said story is told by Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintin Mendizábal.
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It is the story of the family that built the house BigFancyHouse referred to in the title (three houses, to be exact). Said story is told by Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintin Mendizábal.
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: Carmita, Isabel's mother, becomes pregnant relatively soon with her second child. Gabriela, Carmita's mother pressures her to have an abortion. It goes wrong, making it impossible for Carmita to have any more children and messing with her mental health.
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: Carmita, Isabel's mother, becomes pregnant relatively soon with her second child. Gabriela, Carmita's mother pressures her to have an abortion.abortion so she doesn't end up trapped with two small kids. It goes wrong, making it impossible for Carmita to have any more children and messing with her mental health.
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* BewareTheQuietOnes: Quintin reads Isabel's account of her ballet studies and deduces that [[spoiler:she was responsible for the reveal her instructor's TeacherStudentRomance with her classmate Estefanía Volmer to the public, ending in his divorce and being driven out of town]]. He worries about what she is capable of doing if she were to think he didn't love her anymore.
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* BewareTheQuietOnes: Quintin reads Isabel's account of her ballet studies and deduces that [[spoiler:she was responsible for masterminding the reveal of her instructor's TeacherStudentRomance with her classmate Estefanía Volmer to the public, ending in his divorce and being driven out of town]].town in disgrace]]. He worries about what she is capable of doing if she were to think he didn't love her anymore.
** A nameless young boy with a crush on Isabel. Quintin gives him a CurbStompBeatdown and he dies by suicide later on.
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* GoingCommando: Estefania does this often. She is completely shameless about bending over, revealing her derriere to an entire audience at a coronation ball.
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* GoingCommando: Estefania does this often. She is completely shameless [[ShamelessFanServiceGirl shameless]] about bending over, over and revealing her derriere to an entire audience at a coronation ball.
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* IfICantHaveYou: Ermelinda, after Rebecca tries to embarrass her at a ball, refuses to allow her daughter Esmeralda marry Rebecca's son Ignacio. During her wedding night to another man, he gets ahold of a gun and shoots at the door. The bullet ends up [[{{Main/Fingore}} damaging her hand and requiring an amputation of her finger]]. She is forced to abandon her aspiration to become a fashion designer.
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* ImpoverishedPatricians: Juan and [[UpperClassEquestrian Calixto]] are members of Spanish nobility. By marrying the Mendizabal daughters, they are able to become the IdleRich.
* IfICantHaveYou: Doña Ermelinda, after Rebecca tries to embarrass herat a ball, in public by knocking off the former's turban off her head, refuses to allow her daughter Esmeralda marry Rebecca's son Ignacio. During her Esmeralda's wedding night to another man, Ernesto, Ignacio he gets ahold of a gun and shoots at the door.door of the house they are staying. The bullet ends up [[{{Main/Fingore}} damaging her hand and requiring an amputation of her finger]]. She is forced to abandon her aspiration to become a fashion designer.
* IfICantHaveYou: Doña Ermelinda, after Rebecca tries to embarrass her
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: Carmita, Isabel's mother, becomes pregnant relatively soon with her second child. Gabriela, Carmita's mother pressures her to have an abortion. It goes wrong, making it impossible for Carmita to have any more children and messing with her mental health.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Quintin reads Isabel's account of her ballet studies and deduces that [[spoiler:she was responsible for the reveal her instructor's TeacherStudentRomance with her classmate Estefanía Volmer to the public, ending in his divorce and being driven out of town]]. He worries about what she is capable of doing if she were to think he didn't love her anymore.
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* IfICantHaveYou: Ermelinda refuses to allow her daughter Esmeralda marry Ignacio Mendizabal. During her wedding night to another man, he gets ahold of a gun and shoots at the door. The bullet ends up [[Fingore damaging her hand and requiring an amputation of her finger]]. She is forced to abandon her aspiration to become a fashion designer.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Ignacio and Carlos (Isabel's father)]]
* EthnicMenialLabor: Whenever a Mendizabal daughter has a baby, she must have a nanny. These nannies and additional posts are filled by members of Petra's family.
* GoingCommando: Estefania does this often. She is completely shameless about bending over, revealing her derriere to an entire audience at a coronation ball.
* HiredHelpAsFamily: Petra ends up becoming a mother figure to Isabel.
* IfICantHaveYou:Ermelinda Ermelinda, after Rebecca tries to embarrass her at a ball, refuses to allow her daughter Esmeralda marry Ignacio Mendizabal.Rebecca's son Ignacio. During her wedding night to another man, he gets ahold of a gun and shoots at the door. The bullet ends up [[Fingore [[{{Main/Fingore}} damaging her hand and requiring an amputation of her finger]]. She is forced to abandon her aspiration to become a fashion designer.
* OldRetainer: Petra Avilés.
* TeacherStudentRomance: The Russian ballet instructor with Estefania Volmer. Never mind that he is married.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Whenever a Mendizabal daughter has a baby, she must have a nanny. These nannies and additional posts are filled by members of Petra's family.
* GoingCommando: Estefania does this often. She is completely shameless about bending over, revealing her derriere to an entire audience at a coronation ball.
* HiredHelpAsFamily: Petra ends up becoming a mother figure to Isabel.
* IfICantHaveYou:
* OldRetainer: Petra Avilés.
* TeacherStudentRomance: The Russian ballet instructor with Estefania Volmer. Never mind that he is married.
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[[caption-width-right:168:The house has seen so many stories]]
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* AnachronismStew: Within the story Isabel writes. She includes details like Buenaventura eating a hot dog and the polluted waters of the capital's bay. Quintín points out that at that time, hot dogs were not available at the island and the water was not polluted yet.
* BreakTheHaughty: Rebecca decides to present a version of the dance of the seven veils to her group of artist friends. When her husband spots her dancing half-naked, she beats her severely and imposes a tyrannical regime in the house, making everybody take a cold shower each morning and attend mass every day. He also forces Rebecca to abandon her artistic aspirations.
* IfICantHaveYou: Ermelinda refuses to allow her daughter Esmeralda marry Ignacio Mendizabal. During her wedding night to another man, he gets ahold of a gun and shoots at the door. The bullet ends up [[Fingore damaging her hand and requiring an amputation of her finger]]. She is forced to abandon her aspiration to become a fashion designer.
* UnreliableNarrator: Both spouses. Isabel has been writing the family's history (both on her side and Quintin's). Quintin is incensed her point of view and adds notes with his own version of events.
* AnachronismStew: Within the story Isabel writes. She includes details like Buenaventura eating a hot dog and the polluted waters of the capital's bay. Quintín points out that at that time, hot dogs were not available at the island and the water was not polluted yet.
* BreakTheHaughty: Rebecca decides to present a version of the dance of the seven veils to her group of artist friends. When her husband spots her dancing half-naked, she beats her severely and imposes a tyrannical regime in the house, making everybody take a cold shower each morning and attend mass every day. He also forces Rebecca to abandon her artistic aspirations.
* IfICantHaveYou: Ermelinda refuses to allow her daughter Esmeralda marry Ignacio Mendizabal. During her wedding night to another man, he gets ahold of a gun and shoots at the door. The bullet ends up [[Fingore damaging her hand and requiring an amputation of her finger]]. She is forced to abandon her aspiration to become a fashion designer.
* UnreliableNarrator: Both spouses. Isabel has been writing the family's history (both on her side and Quintin's). Quintin is incensed her point of view and adds notes with his own version of events.
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''The House on the Lagoon'' (Spanish title: La casa de la laguna) is a 1995 novel by [[Creator/RosarioFerre Rosario Ferré]].
It is the story of the family that built the house referred to in the title (three houses, to be exact). Said story is told by Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintin Mendizábal.
This book was a finalist for the National Book Award.
!! Tropes present in this book
It is the story of the family that built the house referred to in the title (three houses, to be exact). Said story is told by Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintin Mendizábal.
This book was a finalist for the National Book Award.
!! Tropes present in this book
