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My paper examines the connection between material questions and female behavior in the first part of Don Quixote. Through the very dissimilar cases of Marcela and Dorotea, l show that Cervantes always foregrounds the material and social conditions of his female characters when relating their actions and choices. Even when generic conventions would seem to demand a complete disregard for such questions, as in the pastoral and the romance, Cervantes emphasizes how wealth and class crucially condition the values that women in his fiction uphold or reject. Unlike the moralist literary critics of his time, Cervantes refuses to apply abstract moral principies to the conduct of the different women who inhabit his narrative world. Instead, he invites his reader to understand rather than judge the female characters, thus refusing to turn literature into an exemplary moral repository for a much more complex real world.

Los límites materiales de la independencia femenina en "El Quijote I": Los casos de Marcela y Dorotea