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    The document provides a summary of the short story "May Day Eve" by Filipino author Nick Joaquin. It describes the major characters - Badoy, Agueda, and their family members. The plot sees Badoy visiting his old home and recalling how he fell in love with Agueda after she used magic to learn he would be her husband. They married but had a bitter relationship, with Badoy learning Agueda called him a "devil" and he only saw her as a "witch" in the mirror. The tragedy was their passionate love from the past faded and they were unable to repair their broken marriage.

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    The document provides a summary of the short story "May Day Eve" by Filipino author Nick Joaquin. It describes the major characters - Badoy, Agueda, and their family members. The plot sees Badoy visiting his old home and recalling how he fell in love with Agueda after she used magic to learn he would be her husband. They married but had a bitter relationship, with Badoy learning Agueda called him a "devil" and he only saw her as a "witch" in the mirror. The tragedy was their passionate love from the past faded and they were unable to repair their broken marriage.

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    The document provides a summary of the short story "May Day Eve" by Filipino author Nick Joaquin. It describes the major characters - Badoy, Agueda, and their family members. The plot sees Badoy visiting his old home and recalling how he fell in love with Agueda after she used magic to learn he would be her husband. They married but had a bitter relationship, with Badoy learning Agueda called him a "devil" and he only saw her as a "witch" in the mirror. The tragedy was their passionate love from the past faded and they were unable to repair their broken marriage.

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    The document provides a summary of the short story "May Day Eve" by Filipino author Nick Joaquin. It describes the major characters - Badoy, Agueda, and their family members. The plot sees Badoy visiting his old home and recalling how he fell in love with Agueda after she used magic to learn he would be her husband. They married but had a bitter relationship, with Badoy learning Agueda called him a "devil" and he only saw her as a "witch" in the mirror. The tragedy was their passionate love from the past faded and they were unable to repair their broken marriage.

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    JOSE P.

    ZANTUA III
    SBIT-CS3B

    May Day Eve


    "May Day Eve" is a short story written by Filipino National Artist Nick Joaquin. Written
    after World War II, it became one of Joaquin's signature stories that became a
    classic[1] in Philippine literature in English. Together with Joaquin's other stories like The
    Mass of St. Sylvester, Doa Jeronima and Candidos Apocalypse, May Day Eve utilized
    the theme of "magic realism" long before the genre was made a trend in Latin American
    novels.Published in 1947, it is a story originally intended for adult readers,but has later
    become a required and important reading material for Filipino students.

    Character Description
    The major characters in May Day Eve are Badoy, Agueda, Anastasia,Agueda's
    daughter, and Voltaire (Badoy's grandson).Agueda and Badoy have different
    personalities. Agueda was described to be a bold, liberated, and a non-conformist
    young woman who was ahead of her time. While Badoy was characterized in the
    beginning as a promiscuous young man who wanted to prove his machismo, he
    realized that he was deliriously in love with Agueda.

    Plot summary
    As Don Badoy Montiya visited his old home at Intramuros, Manila, memories of his
    youth came back. He recalled how he fell in love with Agueda, a young woman who
    resisted his advances. Agueda learned that she would be able to know her future
    husband by reciting an incantation in front of a mirror. As she recited the words: Mirror,
    mirror, show to me him whose woman I will be, Agueda saw Badoy. Badoy and
    Agueda got married. However, Don Badoy learned from his grandson that he was
    described by Doa Agueda (through their daughter) as a "devil". In return, Don Badoy
    told his grandson that every time he looks at the mirror, he only sees a "witch"
    (Agueda). Don Badoy ponders on love that had dissipated.The truth was revealed,
    Badoy and Agueda had a bitter marriage, which began in the past, during one evening
    in the month of May in 1847. The tragedy of the story is Badoys heart forgot how he
    loved Agueda in the past. They were not able to mend their broken marriage because
    their love was a raging passion and nothing more

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