The home is a recurring setting in Clarice’s work: a place where there are conflicts, surprises, and discoveries. It is a microcosm in which one glimpses the networks of affections and problems arising from the family and the society. A place of love and encounters, it also emerges as the environment in which the impositions of order and convenience, the narrow limits of subordination and habit, take place more clearly. If obedience to the rules of the home and their consequences brings some tranquility, soon that world will seem suffocating and fragile. It is then that the characters – especially the female ones – discover, and experience, the possibility of life beyond that arrangement: outside the moral, existential limits and confines of language itself.