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Luis is Analía’s cousin and Eugenio’s son. Blandly handsome, but boring and a little mean, he marries Analía to secure her estate for himself and his uncle. To charm her, he enlists his friend (who will later be his own son’s teacher) to write letters to Analía. Analía falls in love with the person in the letters—who is nothing like Luis. Once her son starts going to school and receiving report cards (allowing her to match the handwriting in the letters to the handwritten report cards), however, she figures out the plot for herself. Luis eventually dies in a drunken accident and Analía reassumes control of her estate.
Luis Quotes in The Stories of Eva Luna
The The Stories of Eva Luna quotes below are all either spoken by Luis or refer to Luis . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Story 21: Letters of Betrayed Love Quotes
Legally, Luis was the administrator of the hacienda, but in reality it was Analía’s uncle Eugenio who fulfilled that function, since Luis was bored by the details of country life. After the midday meal, when father and son installed themselves in the library to drink cognac and play dominoes, Analía would hear her uncle making decisions about investments, herds, crops, and harvests. On the rare occasions when she dared interrupt to offer an opinion, the two men listened with professed attention, assuring her they would keep her suggestions in mind, but then did as they pleased. At such times Analía would gallop through the pastures to the foot of the mountain, wishing she had been a man.
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Luis Character Timeline in The Stories of Eva Luna
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Story 21: Letters of Betrayed Love
A month later, Eugenio arranges for Analía to exchange letters with his son, Analía’s cousin Luis. At first, still suspicious of her uncle’s plans, Analía avoids reading the letters, but she...
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Analía and Luis embark on an unhappy marriage. He isn’t cruel to her, but there’s no passion between...
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...reads it, she grows elated, asking her son all about the school. Not long after, Luis dies after a horse he tries to mount on a dare kicks him in the...
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...his handwriting on her son’s report card. The teacher confesses to writing the letters for Luis, his boyhood friend. He asks for her forgiveness, telling her how happy the correspondence made...
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