Can someone please help me with this Spanish story?
I am reading “El Nieto” by Antonio Benitez Rojo. I have gone through the story and made notes to help me understand it, but I am still confused and beginning to feel frustrated. Here is my summary, but I am not sure I have the story completely straight. If you are willing to read it and help me, I would be very grateful!
In the story, a worker approaches a woman who is sitting on her porch, and she offers him lemonade. He drinks some inside her home and notices a picture of a man. He asks her who it is, and the old woman replies that it is her grandson. Then, she quickly snatches up the picture. The man leaves and encounters an older gentleman, with whom he starts a conversation. He realizes that he resembles the man in the picture, and the older man confirms that it is indeed him. He then reveals that he is actually the old woman’s husband, not her grandson, and shares the story of their life in Havana, mentioning that they could not have a family.
This is where I got confused. Could someone please clarify the details for me? Thank you!
1 Answers
You have misunderstanding the ending a little. The guy runs into the old guy. This old man is the old woman´s husband. After noticing the man looks like the photo, he asks him if he is the guy of the photo. He says yes. An also if the old woman has recognized him. He says he think she has not because of the dim light of the house, that he is older and now he has a beard.
Then the old guy says the lived in La Havana, and wanted to retire there. The woman found the photo in the street, and begun to tell everyone it was his grandson. They were old and had no family, so it was a way to “pretend” they have a family. He then ask the guy about his life. He tolds him a bit of his life (that he live in the lomas, that he had a girfriend in that town..). The old man tells him that everyone will think he is the grandson of the old guys. Even the old woman will think that.
He tells the old guy to tell everybody that the gradson has returned to work there for a while, and they plan to meet again at night with the “grandma” (like a grandson will do..) and he says “That will be the normal way, won´t it?..”
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