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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey	comment	The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 novella by Thornton Wilder.The story starts with the collapse of the eponymous bridge, a rope bridge on the road between Lima and Cuzco. The bridge collapse is witnessed by Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who was active in Peru in an effort to convert the natives to Christianity. Brother Juniper, who has long wondered about fate and the nature of God's will, seeks to study the lives of the five people who fell from the bridge that day. By studying the lives of the five victims, Brother Juniper can show how God's will works on planet Earth, or so he believes. The victims are: DoÃ±a MarÃa, the Marquesa de Montemayor, and her handmaiden Pepita. The Marquesa is an elderly dowager who was unhappily married, and had one daughter who left her behind to move back to Spain. Pepita is her young servant, an orphan raised at the Convent of Santa MarÃa Rosa de la Rosas. Madre MarÃa del Pilar, the abbess of the convent, was grooming Pepita to take over her job as abbess and continue on with the abbess's charity work. Esteban, a young man who was left at the convent as an orphan along with his twin brother Manuel. The twins are basically two halves of a unit, so Esteban is sent into an emotional crisis when Manuel dies from an infected wound. Uncle Pio and Don Jaime. Uncle Pio is The Svengali to Camilla Perichole, a famous actress and singer. Perichole forsakes Uncle Pio when she starts a new life as a society lady, so Uncle Pio asks to be a tutor for her sickly son, Don Jaime.Wilder's novel won the Pulitzer Prize. The closing lines are quite famous; none other than Tony Blair quoted them at a 2011 memorial service for British victims of the 9/11 attacks (see The Power of Love below).
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: A particularly extreme example with Camilla, who has retired from the stage but is still a beautiful society matron when she suffers an attack of smallpox. The smallpox scars destroy her face. Camilla, who assumes that the only reason anyone cared about her was her beauty, shuts herself up in her mansion and refuses all human contact.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Camilla Perichole is this to the Viceroy of Peru. She bears him a son, Don Jaime, and two daughters.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: After his book about the bridge collapse is judged to be heretical, Brother Juniper is burned at the stake.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: â€œ...and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.â€� (Matthew 10:29)
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: Esteban goes through a great deal of angst after the death of his twin Manuel. He essentially becomes a homeless person for a while, wandering around aimlessly, answering to his brother's name. It culminates in an Interrupted Suicide.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_475b8ac0	type	Rope Bridge
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_475b8ac0	comment	Rope Bridge: The plot is kicked off by the collapse of the rope bridge, killing five. An inquisitive friar then sets out to learn about the five people who died in the accident.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_59f8264	type	StageName
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_59f8264	comment	Stage Name: Camila Perichle was a 12-year-old girl named Micaela Villegas, singing in cafes, when Uncle Pio discovers her and sets about making her into a great actress and singer.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: "...telepathy was a common occurrence in their lives...." When either Esteban or Mauel is coming home, the other knows it when his brother is still blocks away.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_5cd8680b	type	Doorstop Baby
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_5cd8680b	comment	Doorstop Baby: The twin babies later named Esteban and Manuel are found in a basket at the door of the convent.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_642594ea	type	Pygmalion Plot
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_642594ea	comment	Pygmalion Plot: Lampshaded, as "the determination entered his mind to play Pygmalion" after Uncle Pio first met young Camilla. Somewhat averted when their relationship never turns romantic; "They loved each other deeply but without passion."
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: The story is framed as coming from Brother Juniper's original book, a history of a Real Life bridge collapse, which the author has discovered.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: In the moving final lines of the novel, the Abbess Maria contemplates the souls of those who have died and those who are still alive but will come after them. She concludes that love is the only thing that gives life meaning.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Uncle Pio was replaced in death by an unidentified man in the 1944 film adaptation.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: Abbess Maria del Pilar, who does a lot of charity work that involves things like helping prostitutes and abandoned mothers and babies, "had come to hate all men" because of how they take advantage of women. This causes her some internal conflict when she comes to love the twins Esteban and Manuel so much.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: â€œSome say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day,â€� followed immediately by As the Good Book Says... (see above).
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The book starts with the collapse of the bridge, and then goes back to consider how the five people killed on the bridge happened to be there on that day.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: DoÃ±a Maria would have preferred to remain single, but when she was 26 her parents forced her into marriage with a â€œruined nobleman.â€�
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Esteban and Manuel pretty much share a single identity.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The unnamed narrator, presumably Thornton Wilder, who assumes a snarky tone throughout.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_aec19d54	type	Hyperlink Story
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_aec19d54	comment	Hyperlink Story: All five of the people who died on the bridge that day were connected. Camilla Perichole had met and talked with both DoÃ±a Maria and Pepita, she was the object of Esteban's brother's affections, and Uncle Pio and Don Jaime were her family. The Abbess Maria sent her protege Pepita to DoÃ±a Maria, and raised Esteban from infancy.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_b414868	type	Take It to the Bridge
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_b414868	comment	Take It to the Bridge: Notably, four of the five people who plunged off the bridge, all but little Don Jaime, had reached major turning points in their lives. And the last lines of the novel (see The Power of Love above) characterize love as a bridge between the living and the dead.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: DoÃ±a Maria â€œcould not prevent herself from persecuting DoÃ±a Clara with nervous attention and a fatiguing love.â€� Maria, who has no one else in her life to love, focuses all her energy and attentions on her daughter, which winds up alienating Clara from her mother.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Esteban is hanging himself due to grief over Manuel when Captain Alvarado bursts in and saves him.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_d614b25f	type	Twin Banter
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_d614b25f	comment	Twin Banter: Esteban and Manuel wind up developing their own language, one that doesn't even resemble Spanish.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The Abbess Maria has some far-sighted ideas. Specifically, she wonders if some sort of language can be created for deaf-mutes, and she thinks that there must be a more "gentle" way to treat the insane.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_e3f7524b	type	Dice Roll Death
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_e3f7524b	comment	Dice Roll Death: Discussed. As a major element of the novel is the question of whether the people who were killed in the collapse of the titular bridge were there by chance or by providence.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: There really was an actress called "La Perichole", aka Micaela Villegas, who had an affair with the Viceroy of Peru, Don Manuel de Amat y Junyent.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: DoÃ±a Maria, having been inspired by Pepita, realizes that she has been cowardly her whole life—â€œShe had never brought courage to either life or love.â€� She resolves in her old age to finally start living life for herself, saying â€œLet me begin again.â€� Two days later she plunges off the bridge. Similarly, Esteban finally decides to stop mourning for Manuel and become a sailor, only to fall off the bridge almost immediately after.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
The Bridge of San Luis Rey / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: After Clara leaves her, sailing off to Spain with her new husband, DoÃ±a Maria is old and alone and broken-hearted. She starts drinking constantly. She makes a habit of drying up for a week in order to prepare herself to write the monthly letter to her daughter, then drinks herself into oblivion for three weeks after the letter is sent.
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