My Response to Elena's Blog #4: The Image of Cecilia Valdes

This is really great! I love how you described it as an allusion and extended metaphor. I kind of caught on to the image of Cecilia being portrayed as the whole society, but not to the extent you took it! Cecilia was a mulatto that you can relate to a certain sense with because it is a novel, and it is interesting to think that all the mulattos were like that/extending her to all of society. Would you say all the characters are part of an extended metaphor? Leonardo is definitely a metaphor of white men in society. What do you think about Nemesia? Do you think she is just for the background basis to make the novel seem more real?