may day eve
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- May Day Eve by Nick Joaquin
- The Party
- Agueda's Tantrum
- Agueda and Badoy’s story began in that first night of May. Agueda is a smart girl who seems to mature ahead of her age.Unlike girls of her age, she is bold and liberated. Badoy is much older than Agueda is. He studies in Europe and likes to play with girls as Agueda hears it from his stories with his friends. She hates him for that.
- The Devil
- The party that night in the house of the Monitya’s was in honor of Badoy who just came from Europe. The old people have ordered to stop the dancing as it was getting late at night but Agueda and the girls went upstairs to continue the noise.
- Dona Agueda's and daughter
- But Anastasia, a maga who was in charged of them, started to tell legends. It was said that if you look at the mirror and memorize the incantation, you will see the face of whoever it was they were fated to marry. Agueda decided to try it. But Anastasia warned her that she might see the devil instead.
- Don Badoy and grandson
- She stepped out of the room and went into the room with the big antique mirror with a gold frame, with only a candle for light. She closed her eyes and whispered the incantation. She heard a step behind her and instantly opened her eyes. Agueda whirled around to face Don Badoy, the one who showed himself at her shoulder. They got into a misunderstanding and Agueda went away while Badoy, who was probably drunk by that time, found himself in love.
- The scene then shifts into the time when Agueda was telling this incident to her daughter. She said that she saw the devil and that it had a moustache and a scar like his husband. Their prides prevented them from admitting that they saw each other’s face in that mirror. They continued to claim that it was the witch or the devil they saw. Each claimed that the devil bewitched them, tortured them and ate their hearts. It was so because it was how they were to each other as husband and wife.
- This is the time when Don Badoy narrated what he saw in the mirror when he also did that. He said that he saw a witch and that she was the most beautiful woman he ever saw. Voltaire then told Don Badoy that his mother once told him that her grandma saw a devil in that mirror too. Don Badoy then realized that he and Agueda was at peace at last. For a moment he forgot that she was already dead. But everything shifted back to him. How he fell in love in that May day eve, and even how their marriage ended up ruined.
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