I have been impressed with your responses to Don Quixote this far. For these chapters, I'd like you to pick two quotes that interest you and which you find comment on major themes within the novel (ones we have discussed or new themes you find here). Be sure to state from which chapter your quotes come and be prepared to discuss them in class.
Chapter XXXII:
Talk of the chivalric books happens in this chapter. Sancho, the innkeeper, Dorothea, the barber, and priest speak of how these books have harmed Don Quixote. The barber and the priest want to burn the books about chivalry so Don Quixote can no longer read them and fill his head with crazy ideas of knights and knighthood, but the innkeeper disagrees with this and wants to keep his book intact. The innkeeper allows the priest to copy on of the parts which he then reads to the crowd. This parts was based on two people living in Florence, Italy. One man wanted to put the wife's chastity and purity to the test. These two friends deceived each other, one not really testing the wife, and then actually falling in love with the wife. The story is seen as more true than parts of the novel itself. The situation would seem completely untrue because a husband should not distrust his wife like that so the priest 's thoughts on this can't be true.
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