She feels utterly impressed by her uncle Román, who embodies traditional male energy in the novel. She is also a dreamer, and that is how she perceives reality: “the expectations she nurses and the conclusions she draws, are mediated through a literary lens that establishes a set of preexisting frames of reference” (Anderson, 2010, p. Given Andrea’s life in her hometown, she is deeply invested in literature, such as Don Quixote and Madame Bovary which feature deeply romantic and dreamy characters. Román represents a kind of person truly different from her boring bourgeois life: “I like people from that touch of madness that keeps life from being monotonous even though they’re miserable and are always in the clouds, like you…” (Laforet, 2007, p. For Andrea, Ena is the example of the present world, but she is also fascinated by her uncle Román, a man deeply stuck in the past. 215) remarks, this coexistence "of past and present is in part represented by Ena, who seems to straddle, and perhaps balance, the actual and the virtual”. As literary scholar Craig Bergeson (2010, p. Of course, Andrea is never able to run away from the past, which will always be part of her present. However, she tries to escape, and her friend Ena is the one that frees her from that oppressive world.
Andrea is also stuck in the past, like most of her family.
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