Celestina Day 3

Chapter 7:
Celestina uses her age to try and flatter Areusa , as she talks about her beauty and youth as a great gift, something that she should share with others which is really her alluding to the fact that she is trying to set up Areusa with Parmeno, who she had promised her to. Celestina uses her age, that shows she has experience to trick and persuade Areusa to take Parmeno as a lover.
 Areusa asks for a remedy for an illness she has though does not know what it is and Celestina, who knows more because of her age and experience is able to manipulate and get Areusa to do her bidding. I think that her being as old as she is and having done a lot of things in her life and Areusa, who is still young and naive and doesn't know everything yet I would say that Celestina has more wisdom that Areusa does. The older you are with all the experience and mistakes you make the wiser you grow. With those who are younger they have yet to learn and grow and gain wisdom which is what leads them to do foolish things and fall into traps just like Areusa did.

Chapter 8:
The quote by Sempronio to me means that not everything that you assume to be just because something is not one thing doesn't mean it can't be another nor not all things that are what you would categorize show as should be placed there. In relation to the book Sempronio said this to try and calm Calisto down from trying to rush Celestina into getting him what he wanted. Calisto is a man who wants instant gratification. Sempronio thinks it wise to not rush Celestina and to let her do her work. He tells him that though he sounds wise it is only because Calisto is so blind by love that he thinks any advice is great advice.

Chapter 9:
No one can be trusted in this book, you sometimes can't even trust those who you think are trustworthy or are true to themselves. There is no trust without trickery to try and test how well that trust withstands. There is trust in others to trick others into doing thier will or what is to believed to be their will but under all circumstance everyone is tricking everyone even themselves. I don't think that Sempronio or Parmeno should trust Celestina as she is a sketchy person and as already seen she can manipulate people to do thier bidding. They trust her though because they see their master is an idiot and they expect to get a cut out of the profit that she makes so for therm it is a win win situation. They also think that they can outsmart her if she tried to pull anything funny so they seem to underestimate her and think that she is a push over.