This Spanish girl’s experience seemed strange to me. Her upbringing has been in tune with her age and the social environment in which she grew up since she became an orphan. Because it was unsurprising that there was a tumultuous family dynamic during the turbulent years of the Spanish Civil War. Carmen uses lyrical language to depict Andrea’s surroundings, the words she hears, and the feelings she experiences. Complaints, aggression, and prejudice pervade her life, and she must learn to break through herself and become self-sufficient. This awakening of female consciousness is not only cherished at that time, even in modern times it is still the consciousness that women need.

I recall Andrea being sick at one point. In that frail state, she can actually feel a sliver of happiness, and this description can sense her subtle emotional fluctuations. Instead of spending time with her relatives, she strolled about the city by herself, which her aunt Angustias described as an example of a wicked girl. For her, the adult world is not so easy to integrate into. She takes to the city’s streets in an attempt to discover her own liberation from that suppressed, unpleasant relationship.

She kept her gaze fixed on everyone in the family, as if they couldn’t escape her gaze when they spoke. Gloria’s sorrowful eyes, her grandmother’s shaking hands, and her uncle, an agent, all spoke of family strife from various perspectives.

Andrea wanted to find like-minded friends in her peers, and the classmate, Ena, she liked approached her just to let her introduce Roman. Like many ordinary girls, she needed to find a listener who could share her story with her. But for a girl who came to an unfamiliar environment, it seems to be a very difficult. Andrea enjoyed the time when Angustias left their house, and she went to her bedroom, lying on the bed. This likes when the person who always puts pressure on himself suddenly leaves, and the mind gets a moment of relaxation.

Andrea, on the other hand, is not so mature that she embarrasses herself with the temporary use of pocket money. A boy she didn’t like kissed her. She doesn’t have the ability to adjust her life or control the environment around her. But these seem to belong to the behavior of young people again. In her own words, her happiness needs to be paid for by unhappiness.

In the end, the girl returned to the theme of getting nothing. She seems to have learned nothing from this quarrel and violence, but she is the child who has really grown up.