Yeah, this door would take a long time to describe. Welcome to the Name of the Rose discussion! Buckle up your saddles, you're in for a wild ride. 1a. Eco has described the first 100 pages of the novel as a “penitential obstacle”; in terms of Dante, if you endure the purgatory of the first day (if you get all the way up Mount Purgatorio), you’ll enter Paradise. Well, not really. But you will be ready for the rest of the book. He’s training you as a reader. Did you feel that 100 pages like the purgatory he planed? 1b.Adso is with William because his father wants him kept out of trouble and out of the way of the fighting, and also (unstated) so that Adso doesn’t become a hostage. Adso’s father is nobleman fighting for the emperor; therefore, our naive and earnest narrator would be a valuable tool in the hands of his father’s enemies. Adso is represented as an old man recalling events of many years ago. Does he seem to be a reliable narrator? Does Eco ever give us cause to do