“Only with his many years of experience behind him, however, could Cervantes have understood his world and humanity so well and written with such wisdom about many questions of human existence and the deepest concerns of the human spirit”. (186) Indeed, when Cervantes' masterpiece was written, the author had already struggled with poverty, love, and imprisonment. Bell's next quote, as I understand it, refers to the power held by any reader to criticize Don Quixote at will, whether to praise or denigrate him. “ Be that as it may, the main theme of Don Quixote was clearly the conceit of Don Quixote, the conceit of Sancho, the conceit of Cervantes, of Spain, of modern man, who, aspiring to be his own Providence, finds himself no longer “ bound by golden chains around the feet of God”, but by red ribbon around the feet of man”. (221)The third and final quote from Brenan refers to the idea that the character of Don Quixote alone was not enough to maintain the reader's interest, and therefore it was necessary to introduce Sancho Panza. “It's the duality of the heroes that turns what would otherwise be a short, fun story into a long, great story