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The dishwasher, Enrique, is a projection of what Paco might become in the future. He is three years older than Paco, disillusioned, and bitter. He is contemptuous of Paco and his dreams of becoming a matador. He shows Paco his elegant matador moves and claims that fear is what keeps him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Paco, and all the bootblacks in Spain from being bullfighters. He decides to reveal Paco’s fear by pretending to be the bull with knives strapped to a chair and held to his for the horns.
Paco is a waiter at the motel Luarca. He got the job through his two sisters who work there. The village where Paco and his sisters are from is poor and primitive. Paco is a handsome boy who works hard and loves his sisters,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Madrid, and his work which all seem sophisticated and romantic to him. However, Paco has no intention of remaining a waiter, he is fascinated by the bullfighters and wants to become one of them.
Dishwasher
The old waiter has worked his entire life and believes that to work is the natural state of things. When Paco is faced with the discrepancy between the two men the narrator reveals that Paco wants the world. He wants “to be a good Catholic, a revolutionary,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and have a steady job like this, while, at the same time, being a bullfighter.”
Owner of Motel Luarca
Paco’s Sisters
The tall waiter is a revolutionary. He complains about the priesthood and the bullfighters. He claims that they are barbarians and hold Spain back. He wants solidarity of workers and is anxious to leave work and attend the Anarcho-Syndicalist meeting.
The tall waiter is full of his illusions. He believes that change can happen if revolutionaries force the issue.
The owner of the motel has no illusions about the world she lives in. She seeks her easy comforts. She is a fat widow who is clean and honest. She is also very religious and continues to pray for her husband who has been dead for twenty years. Perhaps she still maintains her some illusions
Paco-A Life of Dreams and Illusions
Employees of Motel Luarca
Tall Waiter
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Secondary Characters in A Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway
Bullfighting in Spain
Ernest Hemingway in Key West
Paco’s sisters are both hardworking chambermaids at the Luarca. They fight off the advances of the hotel clientele who wish to bed them. They go to see a Greta Garbo film the night Paco dies and are disappointed by the great star in low and miserable surroundings, which probably resemble their own.
The mock fight between Enrique and Paco ends in Paco’s death.
Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Capital of the World” focuses on people’s illusions and disillusionment. To understand the illusions and disillusionment described in the story, one need only study the characters.
There are five employees that the narrator describes as working at the Motel Luarca in addition to our protagonist, Paco.
The narrator introduces Paco with a joke: “about a father who came to Madrid and inserted an advertisement in the personal columns of El Liberal which said: PACO MEET ME AT HOTEL MONTANA NOON TUESDAY ALL IS FORGIVEN PAPA.” The punch line of the joke reveals, “the police had to disperse the eight hundred young men who answered the advertisement.” This joke places him in the position of everyman. However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Paco is a naïve everyman. He is the only character in the story whose illusions remain intact.
The old waiter is disillusioned. He knows that life is work. However rather than his disillusionment leading to bitterness, it leads to a peaceful acceptance.
Old Waiter
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