Celestina Day 1 (Acts 1-2)

1) A garden can symbolize a literary setting much as that of The Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden represents the birth of a species, so here this garden may represent the birth of the book or of some other form of literary "life". Here is the two possibly main characters of the tale, whereas there meeting may set the stage for the rest of the book The Garden of Eden supposedly set the stage for the rest of human kinds existence. Melibea is unique in this scene due to the fact that she shows no true wish to be with the good Calisto, most tales that we have read thus-far typically starts with or contain a love that is somewhat desired by both even if that fact is only hinted to in the text.

2) It is clear that even though Sempronio is Calisto's slave he still values his advice at least a little bit, he confides in him that he is suffering from this affliction of love and shows his true face as the type of person he is. The conversation starts out one sided with Sempronio only really caring because he might get in trouble and not going to outright stop him because "maybe he'll leave me something in his will", true friendship is in a complete recall here and we see nothing but a slave covering his own butt. We see a direct quote in this conversation "...the ancient curse that drove Adam out of the delights of Eden;" that really points to the conversation in the garden between Calisto and his would be lover as being that of a biblical standing. This also points to the value he puts on Melibea as not only a woman but as a demon as well, willing to love and sin but not with Calisto.