The romance is transferred in the Carioca suburb and Barreto Rasp describes the suburban environment with wealth of details, as the some types of houses, casinhas, casebres, large cabins, choças and the life of the people who live there.
Clear it is a poor mulata, that live in the Carioca suburb with its parents, Joaquin and Engrácia, sedentary
woman and caretaker. Joaquin was mailman, liked violão and
modinhas. He himself touched flute, and also it composed waltzes, tangos and accompaniments of modinhas. Beyond music, to another diversion of the father of Clear age to pass the afternoons of sunday playing alone with its two friends: compadre Marramaque and the Portuguese Eduardo Lafões, a guard of public works. Modest poet, become paralyzed, Marramaque frequent a small wheel of bohemians and literatos and said to have known Paula Nei and to be personal friend of Murat Luis. Barreto rasp denounces, in the
figure of Marramaque, the closed influence of the literary wheels, groups that abundam in Brazil; the culture of the orality, of that they learn much thing of ear and, of ear, spoke of many of them, having a superficial culture, of varnish; e the azedume of that does not obtain to shine in the wheels of fine people. Clear she was the second
son of the couple, the only surviving son... excessively... had died. It had dezessete years, she was ingenuous and it are bred with very desvelo, I hide and affection; e, not to be with the
mother or father, only left with Owner Daisy, a very serious widower, who liveed in the neighborhoods and taught the Clear one embroidered and sewings. The author always reiterates young the fragile personality da - its soul amolecida, capable to surrender às persuasives power of one any perverse, the more or less bold one, impostor and ignorant, who had to liven up it the concept that the bordelengos make das raparigas of its color - as resulted of its education inmate and tempered pelas modinhas. This elementary nature of Clear if translated the absence of ambition in improving its way of life or social condition by means of the work or of the study. The description of Clear strengthens the curses of machista, superprotective, repressive and limiter the formation reserved to the women in our society. For intermediary of Lafões, the mailman Joaquin starts to receive in house the candidate from Clear, Cassi Jones de Azevedo, who belonged better to a social status. The Marramaque godfather, who already knew it the fame, tries to move away it from Clear when he perceives its interest. In the party of anniversary of the goddaughter, he provokes Cassi and he leaves clearly that it is not welcome there and that would be better that left. Cassi is avenged in violent way: it is joined a body guard and both assassinate Marramaque. Clear, that already he suspected of the threats of the youngster to the godfather, he starts to fear it, but it obtains seduziz it mainly, when confessing its crime, saying that he killed for love it. Dangerous Malandro and, Cassi already had before if involved in problems with justice, but always it are covered for its family, especially its mother, who did not want that he was imprisoned. Thus, it obtained to bribe the policy and to continue unpunished, same after having taken the mother of one of its victims to the suicide and the persecution of the press. I exaggerate it narrative of Barreto Rasp becomes clear when describing the figure of the seducer. White, sardento and of clear hair, is the antithesis of Clear. Clear engravida and Cassi Jones it disappears. Vain for the neighbor, owner Daisy, that she looks in the attempt to obtain a loan and to make an abortion, it confesses what she is happening to its mother. She is led to look the family of Cassi and to ask for repairing of the damage. The mother of the youngster humiliates Clear, revealing deeply offended because a black wants to be married its son. Clear now she is that she had the accurate notion of its situation in thesociety. It are necessary to be offended irremediavelmente in its melindres of bachelor, to hear the violations of the mother of its executioner, to convince of that it was not a young woman as the others; he was much less in the concept of todos.O author represents, in the figure of Clear and its drama, the social condition of the woman, poor person and black, generation after generation. E, in the final scene, when telling what Jones for its mother transfers itself in the house of the family of Cassi, concludes, in desperation, as it was said in name of it, of the mother and of all the women in equal conditions: - We are not nothing in this life.
More reviews about the Clear of the Angels