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inner natures. The more primitive and “natural” the
setting into which they are cast, the better are they able
to develop and maintain their humaneness.
Cervantes presents an array of such marginal
figures and situations. There are, first, the mad people—
Don Quixote and the Man of Glass—who though still
operating in the social world are in continuous conflict
with it by word and deed. Then in Rinconete and
Cortadillo , we meet petty crooks and beggars who live
parasitically off the social world. One step farther from
the centre we find the gypsies presented in The Little
Gypsy (La Gitana ); they are completely outside the main
stream of affairs. Finally, we have the situation wherein
Don Quixote, the marginal Knight, speaks to the simple
goatherds about the Golden Age in which the unity of