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1. “The Lady in
the
Looking-glass”
By Juana Pérez Muñiz

2. Protagonist:
Isabella’s personality is portrayed
with both the description of the
inside and the outside of the house.
Does her personality change when
the narrator sees at her reflection in
the mirror?

3. Isabella’s
Personality
Inside the house Outside the house
➔ “lights and shadows”
➔ “nocturnal creatures”
➔ “passion” “rages” “envies” “sorrows”
➔ “nothing stayed the same for two
seconds”
Symbolizes Isabella’s mind. Its in constant
movement as Isabella’s thoughts and feelings
➔ “white and violet blossoms”
➔ “burning roses like lamps”
➔ “long grass path”
➔ “banks of tall flowers”
➔ “pick something light and fantastic”
➔ “trance of immortality”
Symbolizes what Isabella allows to be known,
her appearance. That she pretended having
friends, being rich, having troubled a lot.
“All challenging here,
all stillness there”

4. Isabella’s
Reflection
“Here she was in her
looking glass”,
Isabella looks at her
reflection in the mirror
which exposed her
true colours, her
personality.
“The looking-glass
began to pour over a
light that seemed to fix
her; that seemed like
some acid to bit off the
unessential and
superficial and to leave
only the truth”
she was “perfectly empty”
“she had no thoughts”
“she had no friends”
“she cared for nobody”
“People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms”
“There was nothing”
She is dead alive

5. E