Celestina Day 3

Chapter 7

Celestina manages to use her age and apparent wisdom that comes with it to convince Pármeno to trust her and believe the words that she is saying. Although Celestina is the least trustable character in this entire novel, she manages to use the stereotype of a wise old woman with years of experience to bend Pármeno’s opinion and get him to do as she wishes. Although Celestina may actually be extremely wise and may have knowledge greater than anyone else, she is also an extreme liar and manipulator. She uses her apppearence as an old feeble, helpless woman to sway Pármeno’s mind. Once she has him in her hand she uses love and takes advantage of his young lust to lock him onto a woman, and thus rid him of his interference in her plan to swindle Calisto. During the entire chapter Celestina puts an emphasis on Pármeno’s young age and his “coming of age”. She does this to show to the fact that she is wiser and more experienced than him, thus her opinion is almost like gold. She uses her age to her advantage, and gives Pármeno exactly what his young mind needs to distract him; a woman.

Chapter 9

Both Sempronio and Pármeno have both voiced their utter despise and hate about Celestina, and about how no one can even trust her, yet they know that she is the meal ticket to their own fortune. They know that one way or another she will get the money from Calisto, and that although she may try to prevent them from getting their share, they will push her to cave. If anything, they don’t trust Celestina themselves, but they trust her ability to swindle and destroy Calisto, and they know that if they work together, they may get their own share in the fortune.