Like Water for Chocolate: Women of the De La Garza Family
Summary:
The women of the De La Garza family in Like Water For Chocolate are analyzed. Included are explorations of what binds them together, what pulls them apart, and characterizations of each.
In the book Like Water for Chocolate, the women of the De La Garza family are all very strong in their own ways. Each of the three sisters Tita, Gertrudis, and Rosaura and the mother Mama Elena have special strengths and qualities that best describe them.
Tita is a good hearted and strong spirited woman. Mama Elena only made Tita stronger by the way she treated her. Tita looks up to Gertrudis because she is happy and got to do what she wanted, when she wanted and with whom she wanted. In the end I believe she was happy but at very high price to pay, her life. Tita loves everyone in her family even the ones who treated her badly and this is what binds her to them. Tita has some hatred towards her mother because of her not letting her marry and also shows some hatred towards Rosaura for marrying Pedro when she knows that she is in love with him.
Gertrudis is a strong and kind person. Gertrudis and Tita are a lot alike. Gertrudis is not there through out the entire novel but it seems like she is always there when Tita needs her. Gertrudis ends up the one person who is very happy and she has the life she always wanted. Gertrudis leaves in the beginning which shows that she is bound to her family but doesn't want to be there she wants to do her own thing and lead her own life. I don't believe that Gertrudis pulls apart from any of her family.
Rosaura is the weakest of them all, she is very jealous of her sister Tita and that is why she marries Pedro. Rosaura is also the most unhappy she isn't content with what she has so she feels the need to take away other people's happiness because of her ragging jealousy. Rosuara's dies with an illness and unhappiness and this shows her bitterness towards life. Rosaura is bound most towards her mother because she is a lot like her she doesn't care how other people feel and if she hurts them.
Mama Elena is a cold hearted woman. She doesn't feel any remorse or anything for crushing her daughter's love and then letting him marry Tita's own sister. Mama Elena seems like she loves all of her daughters. She is just too caught up in the whole tradition that she doesn't even see what she is doing to her own daughter. She is bound to her family by love and because she is their mother. She is pulled apart really only from Tita and that is by the family tradition that keeps Tita from her true love. Mama Elena dying of her illnesses shows the bitterness she had towards life just the same as Rosaura did.
If I was Tita I would have hate towards my mother for all the things that she did and I would have hate towards Rosaura my own sister for marrying the man that I loved and I believe that Rosaura and Mama Elena got what they deserved.
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