return home for a year withoutseeking knighthood.Don went home determined to follow a pastoral shepherd life. He became ill, and his health began to weaken. Before he died, he renounced as nonsense the idea of knight-errantry. Don Quixote died after he had regained his senses. “I was mad, but I am sane now” (Jarvis, 279). He did not realize that he had been a great man of chivalry. Don Quixote is not a story about an insane man who had crazy, impossible dreams and followed them. He set out to conqueror his dreams, and he fulfilled hisdreams. ...
