![]() Esteban tells Férula he's not going back to the mine, and that he's thinking of going to Tres Marías in the country instead. So, back to the greasy soup and the tasteless fish.She even got a kick out of telling him that Rosa died. Férula is jealous of Esteban's freedom and resents him for it.And that's why Esteban and Férula aren't friends anymore. His sister's response? Férula tells Esteban that God was punishing him for spending their mother's medicine money on something frivolous. He's majorly frustrated, and, as usual, furious. As he stirs his coffee, the glass cracks and spills its contents all over his only suit. He gets up the nerve to enter the hotel and order, and is served a beautiful cup of Viennese coffee. Esteban has saved 50 centavos to fulfill his dream of having a Viennese coffee in the Hotel Francés. Here we get a flashback to when Esteban was a little boy and had just received his first wages.Férula used to dote on and adore her little brother, until the day he realized she was an "ominous shadow in his life" and he began to move away from her (2.7). Now we get some back-story on the Trueba family: Férula was the one who raised her little brother when their mother became ill and their father died, leaving the family in poverty.She's turned down two marriage proposals in order to care for her mother, and gets a twisted pleasure out of suffering. Férula insists that he work at something so they can afford their mother's many medicines. Esteban announces that he's not returning to the mine.All she does is read about the lives of the Saints, and the only place she ever goes is to mass once a week. She spends all her time alternating between a chair in the living room and her bed. Their mother, Doña Ester Trueba, doesn't eat with them because she's too old and crippled by arthritis.Esteban Trueba and his sister Férula are sitting in their run-down dining room, eating greasy soup and tasteless fish just like they do every Friday.
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