Antona Pérez’s Household

Lazarillo de Tormes

This thread follows Antona Pérez’s efforts to keep a family alive through bereavement, partnership, punishment, and separation.

increasing

Bearing strength in each event

decreasing

Widowhood

A Household Loses Its Provider Sudden Precarity Antona Pérez is left without her husband and moves to the city seeking work. Practical Adaptation She cooks for students and washes stable workers’ clothes, building a fragile livelihood.

Meeting Zaide Meeting Zaide from "Lazarillo de Tormes". A New Provider Arrives A Risky Relationship Antona Pérez becomes involved with Zaide, who begins visiting their home.

Meeting Zaide from "Lazarillo de Tormes". A New Provider Arrives A Risky Relationship Antona Pérez becomes involved with Zaide, who begins visiting their home.

A New Provider Arrives A Risky Relationship Antona Pérez becomes involved with Zaide, who begins visiting their home. Material Relief His food and firewood improve the household’s daily life, making affection inseparable from survival.

A Blended Family A Blended Family from "Lazarillo de Tormes". Care Across Difference A New Child Antona Pérez and Zaide have a son, whom Lázaro embraces as his little brother.

A Blended Family from "Lazarillo de Tormes". Care Across Difference A New Child Antona Pérez and Zaide have a son, whom Lázaro embraces as his little brother.

Care Across Difference A New Child Antona Pérez and Zaide have a son, whom Lázaro embraces as his little brother. A Child’s Recognition The boy’s fear of Zaide gives Lázaro an early insight into how people judge others without seeing themselves.

Theft Exposed Theft Exposed from "Lazarillo de Tormes". The Household’s Means Are Uncovered Confession Under Pressure Lázaro’s frightened answers help reveal Zaide’s theft of stable supplies.

Theft Exposed from "Lazarillo de Tormes". The Household’s Means Are Uncovered Confession Under Pressure Lázaro’s frightened answers help reveal Zaide’s theft of stable supplies.

The Household’s Means Are Uncovered Confession Under Pressure Lázaro’s frightened answers help reveal Zaide’s theft of stable supplies. Family Consequences Zaide is punished and barred from the home, while Antona Pérez receives a sentence restricting her work and relationship.

A Final Parting A Final Parting from "Lazarillo de Tormes". A Mother Sends Her Son Away A Difficult Choice Antona Pérez gives Lázaro to a traveling master because she cannot provide for him.

A Final Parting from "Lazarillo de Tormes". A Mother Sends Her Son Away A Difficult Choice Antona Pérez gives Lázaro to a traveling master because she cannot provide for him.

A Mother Sends Her Son Away A Difficult Choice Antona Pérez gives Lázaro to a traveling master because she cannot provide for him. Love in Farewell Her blessing and warning acknowledge both the tenderness of their bond and the likelihood of permanent separation.

After Tomé González dies in the expedition against the Moors

After Antona Pérez begins working near the stables

After Zaide becomes part of the household

During Lázaro’s childhood, after the stable administrator investigates

When Antona Pérez entrusts Lázaro to 盲人