Iriane Trindade and Milena Oliveira Summary: Many of the done readings of the romance ' ' Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma' ' , it has as mote the proud nationalism characterized by the protagonist Policarpo Quaresma, however, the text also can be read as a feminine representation of the time, very detached well through three personages, Ismnia, Adelaide and Olga. It is in this perspective that we develop this work, with intention to analyze the feminine representations boarded in ' ' Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma' '. (Abstract) novel Many of the readings of the ' ' Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma, ' ' has theme the overweening nationalism characterized by the protagonist Policarpo Quaresma, to however, the text also it might be read a representation of women at the teams, very well highlighted by three characters. It is this perspective that we develop this work, aiming you analyze the representations of women covered in ' ' Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma presented Article the Miriam teacher Branches, of disciplines Study of the Brazilian Literary Production, of course of Vernculas Letters of the University of the State of the Bahia-UNEB, Campus XXI, as requisite for complementation of the note. Academics of II the Nocturnal Semester, the University of the State of the Bahia-UNEB, Campus XXI.

Daily pay workmanship, characterized for criticizes to the government and the retraction of the Brazilian social problems, in which the author demonstrates in the history of Major Policarpo Quaresma, public officer aficionado by Brazil. The question of the nationalism argues mainly, but also it says of the disobediences politicians of the country, the nepotism, the recklessness of them to be able public and a social order and exculpatory politics. As it is possible to observe, the romance in allows innumerable possibilities them of analyses and understanding, however, we will go delimiting in them to only argue the questions of the feminine representations of the time, as well as analyzing the historical context in which if they had developed these personages.