One quote that goes along with Don Quixote’s madness is in Chapter 30 when
Cardenio says to Dorotea, “But isn’t it extraordinary how this unfortunate hidalgo believes all these lies and fictions, just because they imitate the style and manner of the nonsense in his books” (279). But the priest makes a point when he says, “So as long as you don’t get him started on his chivalry, nobody would say that he wasn’t a man of excellent understanding.” These quotes are significant because everyone keeps calling Don Quixote mad (like Cardenio and Dorotea), but the priest tried to look past that. He admits that when it comes to chivalry Don Quixote does act like a little crazy, but he knows he is an intelligent man outside of his imaginative, chivalrous persona. Maybe the priest is able to see the better qualities in Don Quixote. Perhaps, Don Quixote understands things too well, in such a way where no one else can understand him.
In Chapter 32, the priest says, “now you can find your own way among their lies and their truths, and much good may they do you, and God grant that you don’t end up lame in the same leg that your guest Don Quixote halts on” (293). The priest talks about the book the Great Captain and how it must be a true story because it narrates the captain Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba. It is funny that the priest says that Don Quixote is “ignorant to as to read them as if they were true histories” because the truth is not many books are true. Sometimes the truth gets lost in translation. Fiction fuels the mind and is necessary for survival.
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