{"id":7832,"date":"2021-08-10T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/obra-literaria\/dona-rosita-the-spinster-or-the-language-of-flowers\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:01:51","slug":"dona-rosita-the-spinster-or-the-language-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"obra_literaria","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/obra-literaria\/dona-rosita-the-spinster-or-the-language-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do\u00f1a Rosita the Spinster or The Language of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do\u00f1a Rosita the Spinster (Do\u00f1a Rosita la soltera) or The Language of Flowers. A Grandaine poem from the nineteenth century, divided into several gardens, with scenes of song and dance<\/em> is structured in three acts that are set in 1890, 1900 and 1910.<\/p>\n

In the first,<\/strong> we are introduced to the uncle’s fondness for growing flowers in a greenhouse, as well as the character of the aunt and the mistress, who, although they are always arguing, share a love for Rosita, the niece who has grown up with them and who is already a young woman engaged to her cousin. Taking advantage of Rosita’s departure, the nephew (Rosita’s fianc\u00e9) comes to announce to his aunt that he is leaving for Tucum\u00e1n where his father is. Despite the separation, the cousin promises her that he will marry her again, and she promised that she would wait for him.<\/p>\n

In the second act, ten years later,<\/strong> the world has changed, but Rosita is still in the same place, embroidering her trousseau and waiting for her cousin’s letters. The aunt and the mistress argue about whether Rosita should forget her fianc\u00e9 and get married. She is visited (it is her saint’s day) by the spinsters and the Ayolas, and the contempt for women who remain unmarried and the classism that exists at the time is revealed. The act ends with the arrival of a letter in which the cousin proposes to Rosita to get married by proxy. The mistress continues to show her disagreement with this situation.<\/p>\n

In the third act,<\/strong> the uncle has already died and the women must leave the house in the Albaic\u00edn<\/a> where they lived. Rosita’s cousin has already married another and she has been left alone, already old and deceived, after so much waiting. During this last act, they are evicting the house and in the end they abandon it to move to another one. The house had been mortgaged to pay for her trousseau. The play ends with the same metaphor that appeared in the three acts of the mutabile rose, red when the day begins, white in the middle of the day and faded and withered when the night arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7833,"template":"","genero_obra_literaria":[102],"class_list":["post-7832","obra_literaria","type-obra_literaria","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genero_obra_literaria-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria\/7832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obra_literaria"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genero_obra_literaria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genero_obra_literaria?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}