Read the excerpt from Blanca Flor. [As soon as JUANITO is asleep, BLANCA FLOR gently puts his head down and leaves, taking the thimble
with her.]
The Narrator. When Juanito awoke, he frantically looked for the thimble and, not finding it, ran to the
lake. When he reached the lake, he stood at its banks in amazement. All the water was gone. He looked
over to the other part of the field, and there stood a lake where before there was nothing. He turned to
look for Blanca Flor, but instead there was Don Ricardo.
[DON RICARDO enters.]
4. Why does the author include a narrator at this point of the play?