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Page 25 the reader to expect a comic denouement for both characters: failure in the endeavor and reintegration with the world. <><><><><><><><><><><><> In seeking to identify the principal factors in the reversal of the reader's expectation of a comic denouement for Don Quixote's career and for the governorship of Sancho, I should perhaps begin by observing that although the dubbing of Don Quixote and the conferring of Sancho's governorship are widely separated in the novel, the fulfillment of the desires of both characters is achieved nearly simultaneously at the castle of the duke and duchess.
But as the outlines of this character begin to take on substance, Don Quijote begins to emerge as a threat to his author's integrity and distance. As Don Quijote becomes more sympathetic, Cervantes is threatened by assimilation with his character. "4 Without wishing to diminish the importance of her remarks, I must take exception to some of the implications of Professor El Saffar's analysis. First, the idea that it is Don Quixote who moves Cervantes, rather than the other way 3. , "The Fictive Reader and Literary Self-Reflexiveness," in The Disciplines of Criticism, ed.
The second deception occurs during the governorship of Sancho, when a farmer, who is presented to us with the comment that "it could be seen from a thousand leagues away that he was a worthy man and a good soul" (813), later turns out to be a "rogue [who] knew how to play his part very well" (815). It is true that both cases involve the introduction of minor characters and that the thrust of the first example probably goes outside the book, as a reference to the Osunas, but the second example certainly involves the same kind of withholding of information of which I have just spoken, compounded by deliberate deception.