The Valldaura Family Saga: A Tale of Secrets and Tragedy
Amadeu Riera:
It is the attorney and is married to Constance’s mistress Teresa.
Armanda is the cook has a relationship with the Valldaura Eladi, which gave her earrings.
Barbara:
It is a violinist who know Salvador Valldaura in Vienna ..
Eladi
Stores married Sofia economic interests. She has a daughter from another relationship with Pilar Segura.
Eulalia:
Wife of Rafael and Berguedà friend Teresa. Her husband dies, she joins her cunyatQuim.
James, son of Sophia and Eladi. Dies drowned in the pond in the garden of the tower.
Masdeu Jesus:
Son of Teresa and Michael lamplighter. .
Berguedà Joaquim:
Friend of him who is present Salvador wing vienesa.Quan violinist Rafael murder dies, gets Eulalia in Paris and end together.
Maria:
Daughter of Eladi and Pilar is adopted for this. When you know which is the sister of her husband decides to commit suicide by throwing himself over the bay.
Marina Riera:
Sister’s Attorney Riera has a daughter that will put the same name as her.
Masdeu Michael:
The guy on the lamplighter Teresa youth. Will have a son, Jesus Masdeu.
Rovira Nicholas:
The first husband of Teresa. .
Pilar Segura:
Cupletista of Parallel. Eladi falls in love with him and has a daughter, Maria. Dies in hospital after being Queen of Parallel.
Berguedà Rafael:
Husband of Eulalia and brother Quim. Murder dies by its factory workers.
Ramon:
eldest daughter Sofia. Reveals that his father is the brother of Mary and this is suicidal. It has a very strange disease that makes him dizzy in the water.
Rose:
The governess reveals that the falsehoods Eladi on children, in revenge for the humiliation to which is subject to Maria and Ramon Salvador Valldaura:
live life remembering the Viennese violinist. His daughter Sofia.
Sofia:
Daughter of Teresa and Salvador, this promises to the heir of all the family fortune but in the end it was not així.Es Eladi house and reveals that this has a daughter (the Maria). When the war starts up in Paris and marries a widow is industrial but Teresa has an affair with a lamp in which a child is born. After he married in Nicholas that without knowing the son of another slip up by social level.
These garden located in the tower because it represents, youth, childhood torre.En lived in this garden there is a laurel symbolizing death, since it falls on the beam and where Mary, the representative par excellence of the childhood, committed suicide. Also in the garden we find a small pond filled with water that also symbolizes death because it is where James died in drowning. Indeed water is already a symbol of death to the work that we find in the strange disease of Ramon.A side of the tower and its surrounding other symbols are also physically smaller but more relevant to some . The Japanese cabinet in a cabinet that Nicholas is seen again and again when they see a moth and old furniture. Represents the time that created everything malbé.En this line have also mirror that makes the life of the witness involved and reflects the retailer and the decline of the family. But not only symbolizes the passage of time but is a kind of metaphor for the work because the characters give their personal vision of a series of events past, his life, his loves, the dead, etc.. These visions form a whole that is fragmented, as the mirror in the different characters. It also symbolizes the death of family break-up begins when the Civil War, because that disintegrates from exile, war and other fets.Uns other symbols of death are the pearl of the turtledove or tie it is detached and that the Theresa picks of Salvador. The flowers are also in a symbolicBroken Mirror. Barbara leads the Violets symbolize the death of this romantic figure, doomed to disaster from the beginning. But the flowers represent more than a fact, a character in the novel or relationship between two characters. For example the cherry blossom represents the couple, Teresa Riera Amadeus, and the apple, Teresa and Salvador. Barbara violets also represent the union between her pair of pink and flesh colored Salvador.Les we refer to Teresa and red, the notary Riera.I the final symbol of the decline of the family and the end all find it in the last chapter with the rat. This provides an objective view of the end of the tower and the burning memories like the furniture and other objects taken from the tower. The presence of rats at the end of the tower and the end is found dead in the trunk of a tree. It symbolizes the end of all the family, the tower, memories, and revealed the secret etc.El familiarEladi tragedy had had a relationship with a cupletista called Pilar. This relationship was born a daughter called Mary. When married to Sofia have two children one of whom died, and surviving, Ramon, reaches beyond mere friendship with Maria.La governess Rose decides to take revenge from those who mistreat submitted by Mary Ramon making revelations about the woman she Eladi for certain. Then he went to look for the boys to the beach where they spend the holidays but halfway they withdraw and go home. Decides that already tell they are brothers tornin.Quan when children know the truth sinks his world: Ramon destroys the toys to break with its past. Meanwhile, Mary decides to commit suicide by throwing himself from the roof to collapse llorer.La Sofia tries to forget the episode of Mary and Eladi takes refuge in the library reading books on Proust, he found a notebook with Valldaura confessions. Dies mysteriously and Armanda Masdeu talk about Jesus and his death and the history of família.Es can say that the coming of the secret that Mary and Raymond brothers were the trigger for family tragedy, because from the revelation began to pass a series of events that lead to the decline in family and perdició.Per other hand is the strength of Sofia in trying to break away with the memory of Eladi and Mary and will continue their peaceful life.