Eliza met Joaquin Andieta and in this moment she fell in love with him. She dreamed about him, he was perfect. He appeared in her dreams every night. It became to be an obsession. Love is illusory, “she came to have such mastery of this art that her illusory lover appeared in bodily form, she could touch him, smell him, and heard his voice”. In this part of the book, we can see, that the sentence “love is illusory” becomes to be true. Eliza did not know Joaquin very, but she had exalted him so much in her dreams that she was meeting somebody who did not exist.

At first all was perfect. She thought that love between them was romantic and sincere. It was romantic and passionate, but not sincere. This love did not last very long. Joaquin went to California to look for gold, and he never came back to Eliza. She spent a big part of her life looking for him, but it was impossible to find him. Eliza traveled through California with the hope to see him. She did not realize that the Joaquin of her dreams did not exist.

- Relationship between Tao and Eliza.

Love is a journey of self-discovery. This is true for Eliza because she got to know herself better in the search for Joaquin. She belonged to a good family in Chile. Her aunt Rose told her that in those times, a woman could not live by herself. But in San Francisco she realized that love can achieve everything. She discovered a lot ways to earn money. She saw that she was able to do things that she never had done in her life. Every person can suffer this sensation. People think that their powers are limited in any way. This is not true. If you can do anything, if you use all your mind, you will be able to do everything. Love is power and in Daughter of fortune, we can see that love can end but it can overcome all obstacles.

I think that Eliza realized her big mistake when she found Joaquin dead and different. He was not her lover, she had spent a lot of years looking for a illusory love. Joaquin Andieta did not exist. He only existed in her dreams. For this reason, love is illusory. People need to have this kind of love, but only a few, achieve it.

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