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-->[[spoiler:"''Dear Luis, Did you know I once won the 100-metre dash? Please forgive me. Ester.''"
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-->[[spoiler:"''Dear Luis, Did you know I once won the 100-metre dash? Please forgive me. Ester.''"''"]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Ester Dantes, Don Eduardo's daughter, and Luis' sometime LoveInterest.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Ester Dantes, Don Eduardo's daughter, and Luis' sometime LoveInterest.LoveInterest, by overdosing on sleeping pills.]]
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* GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler:Ester leaves two suicide notes, one for her parents and a pretty short one for Luis.]]
-->[[spoiler:"''Dear Luis, Did you know I once won the 100-metre dash? Please forgive me. Ester.''"
-->[[spoiler:"''Dear Luis, Did you know I once won the 100-metre dash? Please forgive me. Ester.''"
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* PhilosophicalNovel
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute / ExpyCoexistence: Luis is this to [[Literature/ThePretenders Antonio Samson]]. Both are young men with Ilocano origins who grew up with intimate experience of poverty. Both left their poor circumstances, studied and eventually got jobs that involve a lot of writing. Both quit their respective universities after they're snubbed by the faculty (though Luis was a student, while Tony was a professor). Both got involved (to different degrees) with the [[UptownGirl rich daughters of their respective employers]]. And both even [[KissingCousins had sex with their cousins]], begetting a son in the process.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute / ExpyCoexistence: Luis is this to [[Literature/ThePretenders Antonio Samson]]. Both are young men with Ilocano origins who grew up with intimate experience of poverty. Both left their poor circumstances, studied and eventually got jobs that involve a lot of writing. Both Their respective novels pick up their lives during the postwar Third Republic, when both quit their respective universities after they're snubbed by the faculty (though Luis was a student, while Tony was a professor). Both got involved (to different degrees) with the [[UptownGirl rich daughters of their respective employers]]. And both even [[KissingCousins had sex with their cousins]], begetting a son in the process.
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* LatinLover: Luis, the Basque/Ilocano mestizo, is a pretty mild version of this, but he's still pretty affectionate towards Trining, and makes a few green (i.e. dirty) jokes towards her, though more so after they're married. His father Don Vicente, even more Basque, is even more so, having had affairs with various women in his youth and still going to whorehouses in his later years—not to mention the two main chicks in his life: his Spaniard wife, and Nena, with whom he sires Luis.
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* LatinLover: Luis, the Basque/Ilocano mestizo, is a pretty mild version of this, but he's still pretty affectionate towards Trining, and makes a few green (i.e. dirty) jokes towards her, though more so after they're married. His father Don Vicente, even more Basque, is even more so, having had affairs with various women in his youth and still going to whorehouses in his later years—not to mention the two main chicks in his life: his Spaniard wife, and the Ilocana Nena, with whom he sires Luis.
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* FictionalDocument: One of Luis' poems, titled "Calvaria", is presented at the start of the novel. It also "reproduces" several letters he writes to his various loved ones.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Ester mentions once that Luis' antics will drive her to suicide. She eventually makes good on that statement.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Ester [[spoiler:During one of their arguments Ester mentions once that Luis' antics will and selfcentredness might well drive her to suicide. She eventually makes good on that statement.]]
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* EverybodySmokes: Something of an EnforcedTrope in Dantes' office meetings. Whenever he calls together his staff and editors he passes around black cigarettes to everyone and personally lights them—even for nonsmokers. Then again, this was TheFifties.
