After reading the first chapter Rivera story's. I felt that Calvino stories have something in common. His charters have a relationship with one another. and they are all in different places or awkward situations. I also noticed that all his charters so far are young, in their teens. in the first story i thought it was weird how he tried to bring Maria and Liberso together. a gardener and a maid. i felt like he made maria very awkward. her character kept laughing at most weirdest thing, makes me wonder if that how he views women, shy and weird. another things i found in common with all the stories were they all had men play the leading role. and made the women look kind of weak & have no mind of their own. in one of the stories he speaks about a girl crying he says that she is "fat" which i thought was mean, he didn't describe any of the male charters as ugly or fat or anything really, to me he kind make women look stupid or embarrassed them.