A Sunny Morning is a comedic one-act play written by the Quintero brothers, Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero. The play was originally published in 1914. The play “A Sunny Morning” explores the theme of two passionate lovers.
Summary of A Sunny Morning By Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero
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Summary of A Sunny Morning 2nd Puc in English
The story of the play revolves around two estranged lovers named Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura who meet each other in a park after they grow old. Don Gonzalo is portrayed as a seventy-year-old jovial man and Dona Laura is depicted as a seventy-year-old beautiful white-haired woman.Don Gonzalo and Doña Laura loved each other when they were young, but were later forced to separate.
The story of the play begins with 70-year-old Dona Laura arriving at a park in Madrid with her maid Petra. She sits on a bench in the park and feeds the pigeons. There comes 70-year-old Don Gonzalo who looked restless, he comes to the park with his servant, Juanito and sits next to Dona Laura. Don sits next to Donna and chases away all the pigeons that Donna was feeding.
Both of them do not recognize each other as they are meeting after a long time.Don is a negative person who sees only the negative in people. On the other hand, Dona is the opposite of Don, she does not think negatively even if people upset her.A sarcastic conversation begins between the 70-year-old Don Gonzalo and Dona Laura.
Don Gonzalo complains that the priest has taken over his bench. He tells Dona that she is an old woman and should stay at home and do her sewing. Dona thinks the Don is a bad-tempered old man.
Afterwards, Don takes a pinch of snuff from the pitch box and gives it to Donna. They tell each other that whenever they take a pinch, they both sneeze three times. After some time, Don and Donna start talking about their hometown. Dona tells Don that she belong to Maricela where she used to live in a villa.
Don tells Dona that he knows a beautiful woman named Laura Llorente, who used to live in the villa. She was a very beautiful woman whom he had known a long time ago. Don and Dona realize they are former lovers, but they don’t reveal their identities.
When Dona Laura was young, she was known as the “The Silver Maiden”. She was as white as a lily, her eyes and hair were very beautiful and black, she was like a dream and loved Don Gonzalo with all her heart. The Don was a gallant lover who would pass by on his horse every morning and give Dona flowers.
Don would throw flowers at Dona’s house which she picked up from her balcony. Don and Donna wanted to marry each other but Dona’s parents wanted her to marry a businessman whom she did not like.
When the Don comes to know about Dona’s marriage he goes to beat the businessman. The Don beats the businessman brutally and injures him. After beating the businessman the Don flees to Seville and from Seville he flees to Madrid. From Madrid the Don writes a lot of letters to Dona to talk to her but he fails in all his attempts. Later the Don joins the army and after joining the army he goes to Africa.
The story now comes to the present, where Don and Dona will continue to lie to each other. Dona tells Don that when she was young, she had a friend who was very beautiful and everyone called her “Silver Maiden”. And that friend of mine was in love with a boy named Don Gonzalo. On the other hand, Don also starts lying to Dona. He tells her that Don Gonzalo was his cousin. He tells her that Don Gonzalo left his hometown because he had a fight with a businessman. After the fight, Gonzalo joins the army and after joining the army he goes to Africa where he dies in a war.
Don lies to Dona and he kills himself in their lying story. Dona tells Don that the girl loved a boy and since she could not marry him, she goes to the seashore, writes her lover’s name on the sand and sits on a stone where the waves of the sea carry her into the sea where she drowns and dies.
This is a lie that Don and Dona tell each other. In reality, Don Gonzalo went to Paris with a ballet dancer. Don and Dona get married two years later after Gonzalo joins the army. The play ends with Don and Dona deciding that they will meet again in the park.
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