"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 in Philippine literature in English. Together with Joaquin's other stories like The Mass of St. Sylvester, Doña Jeronima and Candido’s 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.
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1. MAY DAY EVENick juaquin
2. CHARACTERS IMPORTANTEVENTS SOCIAL ISSUES 3. charactersCONTENT
4. Anastasia a mischievous old woman, who was called amaga.CONTENT
5. Agueda a beautiful young woman with long dark hair. She isbold,
liberated and a non-conformist.CONTENT 6. Agueda as an old woman,
she had a hard, bitter, vengefulface with graying hair.CONTENT 7.
Aguedas daughter a young girl with curly hair.CONTENT 8. Don Badoy
Montiya a young man with curly hair, a mustache and a scar onhis
cheek. He is vain, promiscuous, a stereotypical man,who intends to
proves his machismo.CONTENT 9. Don Badoy Montiya as an old man, he
had turned very pale.CONTENT 10. Voltaire grandson of badoy
montiya.CONTENT 11. Important events Agueda looks in the mirror
during may day eve and seesher future husband, badoy.CONTENT 12.
Important events Agueda marries badoyCONTENT 13. Important events
Resulted to a bitter marriage CONTENT 14. Social issues Gender
inequalityCONTENT 15. Social issues Filipino superstitionsCONTENT
16. Social issues marriage without loveCONTENT 17. CONTENT
