Nostalgia in “When the Dancers Came” Bienvenido Santos’ “When the Dancers Came,” shares a common trait with the rest of his short stories in Scent of Apples. It is the trait that examines the sense of loss in the Filipino American community--a loss of home, country, and family. In “When the Dancers Came,” Santos portrays this loss through the main characters of the story, Filimon “Fil” Acayan and Antonio “Tony” Bataller. Therefore, the main concentration …showed first 75 words of 914 total…

…showed last 75 words of 914 total…speaks less of his own native tongue. A lot of the imagery in this story deals with the snow. The day the dancers came, it started snowing and finally stopped at the moment when Fil finally meets the dancers at the hotel room later on. This is a very interesting observation because in a sense, it gave a symbolic meaning of hope and promise that Fil was longing for—a connection with these other Filipinos.