Cervantes did not have to wait until he died to know that Don Quixote was a great novel. Nevertheless, it did not become one of the great’s novels in the Western World until years after his death. "Often described as the first novel, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote uses the conventions of fiction to question the accepted truths of his own society" (2353). In the book, Cervantes has an unconventional way to take on serious subjects, and covered them under a comical aspect with the use of satire. He was able to take on the important ideas of the time, like class, slavery, and morality, which would have been very common to that era. Another reason for Don Quixote being considered the first novel was the length of the book, readers at that time
