ENGL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Mission San Juan Bautista
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He drives back to her place and finds her car and flowers inside her car there. She says pop liebel who owns the argosy bookshop. Pop tells them that the hotel was built for her many years ago by a rich powerful man. She came from somewhere small to the south of the city. She was very young, dancing and singing cabaret- the powerful man took her and built her a big house and there was a child. He then threw her away, he had no other children, and his wife had no other children. He kept the child and threw her away. She became the sad carlotta, walking the streets alone, in the house alone. Then she became the mad carlotta- stopping people in the street asking. Where"s my child? she died at her own hand. Midge begs scottie to tell her why he wanted to know, but he doesn"t.