Dona Rosita La Soltera (Dona Rosita the Spinster) November 11, 2006

'Dona Rosita la Soltera (Dona Rosita the Spinster)' tells the story of Dona Rosita, a young woman who falls in love with a man that is called to South America to join his parents. He swears to return and Rosita waits until she learns he has already married someone else. Garcia Lorca portrays what he himself called !the grotesque treatment of women' in Spain. The action is set in Granada, Spain at three different years portraying the bourgeois life of the 1880s and the modernization and the beginning World War I during the early 1900s. Lorca draws parallels between Dona Rosita's life and these historic periods beginning with the vitality of her youth, the attainment of maturity and finally the loss of all hope.