Firstly, the book is divided into episodic adventures in order to draw this parallel (The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes). Lazarillo occupies various jobs with each master, including an apprenticeship to a blind man, making his own money as a seller of water and wine, and as a town crier (13-80). With each subsequent service, Lazarillo manages to ascend up the social ladder. To him, each master it treated as a step upwards on this ladder that leads to higher societal importance. In order to scale this, however, Lazarillo must reproduce the tricks that he has learned from his masters. For instance, Lazarillo learned from the prideful squire, who “was of a good appearance, well dressed, and walked with an air of ease and consequence”, that he could use his physical appearance to portray an outward expression of being well-off (41). He used this skill, or rather vice, in order to find himself a better job later. Lazarillo employed this trick when he quit serving the chaplain because he was able to save money to look “like a man of some note” (73). He “was enabled to buy a doublet of old fustian, a large coat with trimmed sleeves, and a cloak lined with silk” (73). Lazarillo
Firstly, the book is divided into episodic adventures in order to draw this parallel (The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes). Lazarillo occupies various jobs with each master, including an apprenticeship to a blind man, making his own money as a seller of water and wine, and as a town crier (13-80). With each subsequent service, Lazarillo manages to ascend up the social ladder. To him, each master it treated as a step upwards on this ladder that leads to higher societal importance. In order to scale this, however, Lazarillo must reproduce the tricks that he has learned from his masters. For instance, Lazarillo learned from the prideful squire, who “was of a good appearance, well dressed, and walked with an air of ease and consequence”, that he could use his physical appearance to portray an outward expression of being well-off (41). He used this skill, or rather vice, in order to find himself a better job later. Lazarillo employed this trick when he quit serving the chaplain because he was able to save money to look “like a man of some note” (73). He “was enabled to buy a doublet of old fustian, a large coat with trimmed sleeves, and a cloak lined with silk” (73). Lazarillo