o think, but he didn't force anything down our throats. We hate Bernarda for what we saw her do, and how others acted around her. She truly was a woman that throughout the play failed to show one redeaming quality. It can be argued that she did what she did out of love for her family and respect for her husband, but I don;t buy it. She did what she did out of fear. She was afraid of what the public would say. She gave off the aura of a big powerful woman, but in reality she was small and weak. She demanded that her family mourn for eight years not because she felt that was proper or because she couldn't face the world without her husband, but because she felt that it would give her family the best reputation. She did this in spite of all of her children's happiness. Those are the reasons we hated Bernarda, we didn't need to be told, we saw it with our own eyes. That is the sign of a good playwright; the ability to show without telling....
