ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews how the ending of El perseguidor by marriage holds a very sudden change of perspectives when Matilde's movement becomes restricted within the patriarchal boundaries of marriage. In El perseguidor, the clash between tradition and modernity is represented in a series of obstacles that limit the travelling woman protagonist in her movement towards individual liberty. The most significant genres for framing El perseguidor are the sensation novel and the travelogue, both forms of writing that are relevant for understanding the problematic relationship between woman and modernity in the text. The turn in Matilde's attitude towards a more positive opinion to the sedentary lifestyle of bourgeois matrimony appears in the passage of the novel that represents her final encounter with the ghost in London. The Freudian ghost character in El perseguidor is supported by the constant warnings and worries expressed by Matilde's relatives and friends throughout the story.
