Regarding the inn as a castle and the prostitutes as highborn maidens, Don Quixote embraces his first adventure. Again his will conquers the everyday situation, for the innkeeper is forced to respond to his strange guest as a castellan must respond when receiving a knight-errant. And the two strumpets administer to Don Quixote with as much consideration and kindness as if they really were courteous ladies of quality. The realistic author writes the chapter so that the reader is amused at the knight's extravagance. Despite the burlesque, despite the objectivity of Cervantes, Don Quixote transforms the scene until even the reader can believe that the inn is a castle, and the wenches are highborn maidens. The innkeeper is even glad to allow his guest to depart without paying for his lodging, just as if he were a castellan entertaining a knight.
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