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Much of the short fiction of Pardo Bazan focuses on the problem of honor, as her characters struggle to acquire, preserve, or restore it. Pardo Bazan approaches the honor code critically, subverting many of its central components either by graphically portraying their tragic consequences for the individual or by creating fictional characters who refuse to comply with them. The five stories selected for analysis in this study represent a variety of honor-related dilemmas, each of which underscores different aspects of the code. 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