Dom Casmurro 3.82 · 3.82

Cosme drops the joking and turns straight to his sister-in-law: 'Mas, olhe cá, mana Gloria' — but look here, sister Gloria. The shift of tone is felt at once; the man who deflected everything with a grin now leans in, family to family, to say the plain thing. 'Olhe cá' is the phrase of someone about to cut through a whole evening of talk to its buried center. After José Dias's rhetoric and his own clowning, Cosme is the one who finally addresses the mother directly about the thing that actually matters.

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