![]() ![]() ![]() When Andrea arrives at the train station in Barcelona, at the beginning of her year there, she is looking forward to the future because of the fond memories she has of visiting her grandparents in this city when she was a child. ![]() Why does she say “así creía yo entonces”? Does this mean, as Alison Tatum-Davis has argued, that, as Andrea is telling the story a few years after it occurred, she now realizes that she did indeed take something with her from her year in Barcelona, something such as the identity or the clearer sense of self she had sought? Or, as Ruth El Saffar and Barry Jordan maintain, was the younger Andrea right in thinking that she wasn’t taking away anything from that year, that she had not progressed, had not changed, and had not found the “self” she was looking for? ![]()
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