María de la Luz Cervantes
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María de la Luz Cervantes is the protagonist of Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “I Only Came to Use the Phone,” a woman whose attempt to make a simple phone call spirals into a nightmarish wrongful confinement in a mental institution.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | I Only Came to Use the Phone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInCollection | Strange Pilgrims NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedGenre |
magical realism
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psychological fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| associatedWorkLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| causeOfInstitutionalization | bureaucratic error and misdiagnosis ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
bureaucratic injustice
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loss of identity ⓘ miscommunication ⓘ wrongful confinement ⓘ |
| characterArc | from ordinary traveler to institutionalized patient ⓘ |
| conflictType |
individual vs institution
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individual vs misunderstanding ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gabriel García Márquez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotionalTrajectory | from confusion to despair ⓘ |
| familyName | Cervantes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationAuthor | Gabriel García Márquez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | María NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| keyPlotEvent |
fails to convince authorities she is sane
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is mistakenly taken to a psychiatric asylum ⓘ is wrongfully confined as a mental patient ⓘ loses contact with her husband ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativePerspectiveRelation | depicted through third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | Mexican ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
desperation to communicate with the outside world
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insistence on her sanity ⓘ |
| primaryMotivationAtStart | to make a phone call ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | I Only Came to Use the Phone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| readerResponseRole | elicits empathy and horror at injustice ⓘ |
| settingRegionContext | Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Saturno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storySettingContext | mental institution ⓘ |
| symbolicFunction |
embodiment of misinterpreted reality
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victim of institutional power ⓘ |
| transportContextAtStart | traveling by bus ⓘ |
| workOriginalTitle | Solo vine a hablar por teléfono NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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