![]() He then goes on a walk to visit Lídia, with whom he has gotten back together, and who is already pregnant with Otávio’s child. One morning, Otávio attempts to write more of his project from home, but is deeply bothered by Joana, even though she isn’t there. Before Joana had gotten married, she had revisited her teacher and found that he had gotten sick, fat, and had lost his intellectual edge. ![]() Joana considers leaving Otávio, but the feeling goes away when he asks her to cuddle with him. Even when he was with Lídia, however, Otávio was already planning on leaving her for Joana.Īs a married couple, Joana and Otávio are sitting in the study of their house, with Otávio working on his academic studies on Civil Law. Before Otávio and Joana were together, he was with a more simple-minded and conventionally romantic woman named Lídia. Joana’s aunt and uncle then decide to send her to a boarding school. The only person who intellectually challenges Joana is her teacher, who then has a deep discussion with her about right and wrong. ![]() Her aunt and uncle are distraught about the theft and do not know how to handle Joana’s prickly personality. Soon after, Joana’s aunt catches Joana attempting to steal a book. While Joana’s aunt deeply grieves the loss of her father, Joana does not want to be comforted by her, and privately considers her father’s death on her own. When Joana’s father dies (of a cause unknown to the reader), she must move in with her aunt and uncle, who live on the beach. Once when she was a child, she listened as her father described, to a friend, Joana’s late mother Elza, who was also a mysterious and alluring figure. When she is an adult, she is married to a man named Otávio who, in some ways, she privately despises. One day when Joana is a young child, she pesters her father, who is attempting to work, saying that she is done playing and does not know what else to do. The result is a collage-type effect that displays the full nature of Joana’s character. The different chapters of the novel do not take place in chronological order, but instead jump around to many different moments throughout Joana’s childhood and, primarily, young adulthood. Near to the Wild Heart is a novel which largely describes the interior thoughts and emotions of a mysterious and alluring young woman named Joana. The following edition of this book was used to create this study guide: Lispector, Clarice. ![]()
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