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El Benefactor
Marcia Lieberman, the wife of Ambassador Lieberman, is an Austrian woman who moves to South America with her husband. She embraces the move, eagerly reading all she can find about the landscape near their new house. Curious, warm, and sympathetic, she embraces everything she encounters—including El Benefactor’s infatuation with and abduction of her, their sexual relationship, and her eventual permanent move to the Summer Palace. Unlike most other White people in the story, Marcia doesn’t seem to be interested in destroying or changing the world she’s entering—instead, she just wants to join it.
Marcia Lieberman Quotes in The Stories of Eva Luna
The The Stories of Eva Luna quotes below are all either spoken by Marcia Lieberman or refer to Marcia Lieberman . 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 22: Phantom Palace
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[Marcia] was dazzled by the landscape. She endured the humid heat and the mosquitoes as if she did not feel them, absorbed by a nature that seemed to welcome her in its embrace. She had the impression that she had been there before, perhaps in dreams or another life, that she belonged there, that until that moment she had been a stranger in the world, and that her instinct had dictated every step she had taken, including that of leaving her husband’s house to follow a trembling old man, for the sole purpose of leading her here. Even before she saw the Summer Palace, she knew that it would be her last home. When the edifice finally rose out of the foliage, encircled by palm trees and shimmering in the sun, Marcia breathed a deep sigh of relief, like a shipwrecked sailor when he sees home port.
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Marcia Lieberman Quotes in The Stories of Eva Luna
The The Stories of Eva Luna quotes below are all either spoken by Marcia Lieberman or refer to Marcia Lieberman . 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 22: Phantom Palace
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[Marcia] was dazzled by the landscape. She endured the humid heat and the mosquitoes as if she did not feel them, absorbed by a nature that seemed to welcome her in its embrace. She had the impression that she had been there before, perhaps in dreams or another life, that she belonged there, that until that moment she had been a stranger in the world, and that her instinct had dictated every step she had taken, including that of leaving her husband’s house to follow a trembling old man, for the sole purpose of leading her here. Even before she saw the Summer Palace, she knew that it would be her last home. When the edifice finally rose out of the foliage, encircled by palm trees and shimmering in the sun, Marcia breathed a deep sigh of relief, like a shipwrecked sailor when he sees home port.
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