O Guarani 5.71 · 5.71

The unfinished thought opens the door on Isabel's own buried love — a 'him' she cannot name, the man (Álvaro) whose regard would make being Cecília's sister mean everything. Alencar plants the whole of Isabel's tragedy in a single dangling pronoun.

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