Unlike his brothers, Alvaro decided to stay, Although his presence here seemed m

unlike his brothers, Alvaro decided to stay, Although his presence here seemed more like a burden than a choice.. « Only ruins and memories. Don Alvaro was a defeated man, Trapped in a place that anchored him to a past he couldn't change. » The decline of the Guzmán estate is a reflection of the broader crisis facing rural Spain in the late 19th century..